Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tupperware Corp., of which he is president, general manager, treasurer, and sole stockholder, in 1942, but war postponed its almost unpromoted rise. With only one agency in New York, which he set up mainly as a distribution center, Tupper this year expects to gross over...
...drummer who started the company in 1891, wanted young Kenneth to have the best of everything, sent him to Paris and Stuttgart for his prep-schooling. But Kenneth Parker has a much bigger reason for being an internationalist-Parker Pen does 40% of its business (last year's gross sales: $18.9 million) outside the U.S. market...
...year-old "Ex," owned by the City of Toronto, is worth $26,000,000 (in land, buildings and equipment), and always makes money. In 1940, the gross take was $813,554, the net profit $32,903. In its best previous year, 2,039,000 customers passed through its rococo Princes' Gate. This year, after a look at the opening-day crowd, Manager Elwood Hughes guessed that in its two weeks the "Ex" would be visited by close to 3,000,000 customers. That, he sighed happily, would keep 250 men and 14 trucks busy 24 hours a day, just...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
Life with Father (Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...