Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel, which made news chiefly by not declaring an extra dividend (which Wall Street had hoped for), trailed with a rise of 20% to $34.5 million. But Big Steel's net did not tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company had put aside an extra $13.5 million. Without this set aside, the profit increase over 1947's third quarter would have been closer to 70%. Similarly, high costs were forcing many another big or growing company to apply more profits...
...brothers sat down to see if it could be done. They substituted an insulated concrete-slab floor for hardwood floors, eliminated the basement in favor of a utility room with a hot-water heater, put an oil heater in the living room and left closets doorless. They got the cost of the unassembled house down to $2,089 f-o.b. the plant. Added costs of erection, wiring, plumbing, etc., said Jim Price, should keep the house under $6,000 on a site costing no more than $650. (They have been limiting shipments to a 500-mile radius...
...Cost of Living. Butter, which had hit $1 a pound in most big cities a year ago, was down to a 21-month low (67? a pound). Other changes in cost-of-living items were mostly down, with Manhattan Shirt Co. cutting spring prices on some shirts by 8% and the Florsheim Shoe Co. by 50? a pair on men's shoes. Notable exception: aspirin was boosted 3? a pound by one. of its biggest producers, Monsanto Chemical...
...Cost of Dying. In Los Angeles, where death has an unusually competitive sting, Utter-McKinley Mortuaries mailed out certificates entitling the bearer to a $20 discount on funeral services...
...drafty halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace echoed last week with the whir of a thousand mechanical monsters, infernally clever and incredibly dexterous. It was the 40th National Business Show, where the booming U.S. business-machine industry proudly exhibited its newest laborsaving, cost-cutting gizmos...