Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...net impression of the film is that Roosevelt personally invented the idea that ordinary people have a few ordinary rights, and that he alone, among the U.S. political figures of his time, had a heart and a soul. Most unfortunately, the emotional focus of the picture is a kind of leader-worship, hardly more attractive in the fact that the leader happened to be a man of good will rather than...
Hollywood took up the challenge-but it did not like the prospect. The industry's take from Britain last year amounted to some $72 million before U.S. taxes. After taxes, it accounted for more than 25% of last year's total net profit of $125 million. To show a profit on some of the high-budget pictures scheduled (e.g., Joan of Lorraine), studios had been counting heavily on a big British draw...
Richard Neison Wishbone Harris was making an understatement. In three years, he has built his "Toni" home permanent-wave kits into a merchandising phenomenon which this year will gross an estimated $16 million and net a tidy $3 million profit, enough to curl anyone's hair. By shrewd advertising (1947 budget: $3.5 million), Harris has captured 50% of the home-wave market. A genial gladhander, Wishbone helps sales by gadding around the country calling on retailers...
Winged Finance. The aircraft slump, which forced some manufacturers into sidelines ranging from iceboxes to canoes and coffins, found Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in the automobile finance business. Lockheed's 95%-owned Pacific Finance Corp. of California, now the nation's fifth largest, reported a six months net of $395,546, more than...