Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With fashion shows, free nylons, plushy bars and season tickets, he boosted attendance to a major-league peak of nearly 2,300,000 in 1946. MacPhail said he sold out for $2,000,000 (his ex-partners would neither confirm nor deny it), which would leave him a net profit for the three years of at least...
...such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income to $12 million, more than double the previous year...
...London Daily Mail, Britain had become a "concentration camp." Right up until Tuesday, boat trains and planes for the Continent were booked to capacity. Clutching the precious ?35 that Britons were then permitted to spend abroad, the last "butterflies"* did their best to flit out from under the descending net...
When these same speed merchants tried skirting the ends, Wally Flynn and Red Hill were waiting for them. The net result, B.U. gained 81 yards by rushing while the Crimson piled up 200 yards in the same department...
...auld sod; the characterizations are revealing without being talkative; and the scenes are put together to make sense, not to elicit sentiment. The widely varied personages are portrayed with a concentration of acting that make each distinctive. The film strains the emotions, but, thanks to British restraint, net the imagination...