Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard & Poor's totted up the profits of 206 representative companies, found they had edged up not quite 5%. The New York Sun rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves...
Less than three years ago the FORTUNE Survey found a bare 13% of Americans in favor of U.S. participation in any kind of international organization. In the current survey in the March issue that figure has surged up to a decisive 68%. Only 12.7% of the polices voted for "no alliances and as little as possible to do with other countries"; only 7.7% wanted to "depend only on separate alliances with certain countries"; and only 11.5% who had no opinion. But the striking news is the list of fairly specific powers which Americans are willing, in a new U.S. Declaration...
With around 4,000,000 troops safely overseas, the U.S. suffered its worst transport disaster of World War II. Last week the Army announced in a detail-bare communique that 1,000 U.S. soldiers had died in the sinking of an Allied ship in European waters "due to enemy action ... at night in a heavy...
...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of early faith...
...Brighton's last Parliamentary contest (1935), a Tory candidate won by 41,437 votes over his nearest opponent. Last week the Churchill-Coalition candidate, Flight Lieut. William Teeling, defeated Independent Briant by a bare 1,958 votes (14,594 to 12,636). Conservative alarm was due as much to Churchill's error as to the outcome. Tories rely on Churchill's enormous popularity, and his skill at using it, to help win the next general election...