Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famous Players-Lasky. President Adolph Zukor last week announced that the company's 1926 net profits were $5,600,815. The Paramount Theatre, Manhattan, has been taking in an average of $75,000 weekly; is earning money at the rate of $1,000,000 a year. Less gorgeous are more than 550 other "Publix" theatres owned and controlled by the corporation, and earning profits. This year Beau Geste, Old Ironsides, Wedding March, Wings, Rough Riders and The Greatest Show on Earth, all Famous Players-Lasky productions, will tour the country as though they were plays on the legitimate stage...
American Tobacco (Lucky Strike, Herbert Tareyton, Blue Boar, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Natural, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal cigarets, Buckingham, Half & Half, Tuxedo, Bull Durham tobaccos) made net income of $22,499,648 last year...
American Radiator has at its "front door" its gold-topped black tower building in Manhattan, at its "back door" a group of expert foundrymen. Both were essential factors in making the company earn $12,476,485 net profits last year...
...black net evening dress...
...field of 18 thoroughbreds, best horses in training, started. Sir Harry, big chestnut colt owned by the Seagram stables, was first to thunder past the finish post, a half-length ahead of Dangerous, his only serious competitor. The race carried a net value of $84,400* to the winner...