Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George M. Cohan, who loved Broadway and despised Hollywood, turned out to have left his heirs more Hollywooden nickels than stage money. Largest single asset of his $827,384 net estate proved to be his interest in the Yankee Doodle Dandy cinema version of his life: $421,766. "Mr. Broadway's" interest in songs: $65,000; in plays...
...good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...
...Corp. was created, Congressional sibyls prophesied that the Government would lose at least $1 billion. Last week HOLC's spry old board chairman, John Henry Fahey, produced figures to show how wrong they had been. When HOLC is finally liquidated in 1948, he said it will show a net profit of some...
...books, while another 348,000 borrowers had paid their loans in full without waiting for them to mature. HOLC had foreclosed on less than 200,000 loans, most of them from 1937 to 1940. It has already sold all but 120 of the houses. Fahey says its net loss of $50,000,000 to the end of 1945 will be more than covered by HOLC's income from other loans...
...plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...