Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
...Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington last week. Opening night, NBC televised a speech by FCChairman Charles R. Denny (from Washington), a variety show, some boxing bouts from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, a film of Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. By early 1952, NBC hopes to cast its net from coast to coast. One big obstacle to the big plans: A.T. & T.'s proposed cable rates-almost ten times the rate for radio broadcasts...
Forfeited, by John Dewey: a share in his first wife's estate ($68,565 net). Papers filed in a Manhattan court showed that she left him a share provided that he stay single. She died in 1927. After 19 years, Philosopher Dewey, 87, remarried last winter...
...When cutbacks came, and United's payroll dropped from 76,000 to 25,000, the company managed to roll with the fall. It closed seven branch plants, returned $51,750,000 worth of equipment to the Government, and ended up with a $6,060,750 net profit for 1946 (after tax carrybacks). This year in the red-ink aircraft industry, United marked its doings in black: it had a $1,431,496 profit in the first quarter...
Nobody thought that the box-office slump was going to shake the industry. Most studios were in the best financial position they had ever known. Last year they showed a total net profit of $125 million. This year, if box office held only "sensational," they might do $100 million. And by turning choosy again, U.S. moviegoers stood to gain. They would frighten Hollywood into making better pictures...