Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...paid for their shares, they bought no pig in a poke. With contracts already signed to buy gas at an average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at an average price of 26.7?, Texas Eastern's backers confidently expect to gross $30 to $40 million a year. If they do, they expect that more than half will be operating profit...
...Powel Crosley had made a fairly pretentious start in carmaking. He began making cars in June of 1946 in two plants -in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marion, Ind. By the end of his first year he had turned out 16,637 cars, for a gross of $12,073,721 and a net profit of $476,065. By expanding the company's two factories, Crosley expects to step up the rate of production from a current 2,700 cars a month to 3,000 early...
...boomed as never before. The 115 assorted hotels, luxury auto courts and apartment hotels will take care of between 40,000 and 50,000 guests between now and next May. The inn alone, which charges from $15 to $25 a day for a single room with meals, hopes to gross...
Gratifying Hum. To Britons, winning few victories in the factories and the mines, the battle of the shipyards was a triumph. Since the war British yards, still operated under private enterprise (they are not on the Labor Party's list for socialization), have turned out 1,959,000 gross tons of merchant shipping-more than the rest of the world combined. They received $360 million in foreign orders, not counting orders from the Dominions. And the British merchant marine, which lost two-thirds of its tonnage in the war, was back up to 18,070,000 gross tons last...