Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inventories at lower of cost or market...
Mighty Fallen. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, supplied U. S. newsorgans with the full 9,000-word indictment against the 21 prisoners. If cabled from Moscow at press rates this would have cost $1,000. It is what the Soviet Government wants to have believed, amounts to this...
...submitted to Congress. Therefore, in making his annual report last week, A. T. & T. President Walter S. Gifford took care to get his word in first. "This country," observed Mr. Gifford, "is entitled in good times and bad to the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost." Referring to the FCC report: Said he: "This investigation . . . has been one-sided throughout. The company was denied not only the right to cross-examine investigation witnesses and to be heard in its own behalf, but was denied the right to have included in the record written material which...
...Total operating revenues increased 5.7% to $1,051,379,343 , but total operating expenses increased 7.5% to $708,479,450. This fact, plus the gradual dwindling of business toward the end of the year, accounted for the drop in net earnings. More than two-thirds of the increase in costs was in wages and taxes. In the past two years A. T. & T. taxes have increased $43,100,000, or 46%. Warned Walter Gifford: "In the long run the Bell System looks to development and research to reduce the cost of furnishing telephone service. If, however, expenses, including wages...
...provides to would-be builders will not produce any housing boom, Chairman Avery dubbed the Administration's approach "superficial" in regarding building as a distinct industry. Said he, "Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal...