Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shipbuilding. And 1940 was its festal year. For Admiral Stark's two-ocean Navy, shipyards launched a naval vessel every twelve days; few were the Washington glamor girls who had not smashed a bottle on a prow. The Maritime Commission at year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked...
...important to General Foods, his sponsor, that the company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year for 35 half-hour appearances before an NBC mike. The take: $630,000, out of which Benny pays for an orchestra, announcer, gagmen and his cast, leaving a gratifying net before taxes of some...
Britain's 18,000,000-ton merchant marine, largest in the world, is sinking. Best unofficial estimates in Washington are that British losses were at the rate of 72,000 gross tons a week in November, more than 80,000 tons a week since, a total of about 2,500,000 tons since beginning of the war. Since England's highest hopes for her own new shipbuilding program are only 1,350,000 tons a year, less than a third the present rate of sinkings, ships stand high on the British must-have list...
...shipping lines, the growing scarcity values of vessels of any age has been the biggest stimulus to modernization since the Maritime Commission began its building program in 1938. When war began, the U. S. merchant marine consisted of 2,345 ocean-going vessels of 8,909,892 gross tons and was largely obsolescent. Over 7% of these old ships, which practically had been written off the books and would have been sold for scrap in a few years, now have been sold to England or Canada. At about $50 a ton, owners have received some $31 million-enough for down...
...Check Please: "around town with the GID. Review of U.T. movies 7:40 "Music 1 on the Air" Parcell-Dido and Aeneas Handel-Concerto Gross No.12 in B Minor 8:45 News From the Colleges: M.I.T. Night 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Swimming Team Bull-Session with Ca pt. Fannies Powers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Casella-Suite From La Glara Cropland-El Salon Mexico B loch-quintet for plane and string quartet 10:45 Crimson News and Interview...