Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only trouble with the phony use of these statistics was that they could be manipulated to prove anything. All aircraft companies except Douglas had shown net deficits during the early '30s; New York Ship ran a $1,300,000 deficit in 1937. Had PM taken these deficit years as a base and compared 1941 profits to them, it could then have proved that profits were up not by a few thousand per cent but by infinity...
Overcoming a six point deficit in the last five minutes to go ahead by one point, the Crimson let Bradley Tech get hold of the ball and score in the last 50 seconds for a 37-36 win. Bradley pulled the same trick on last year's Crimson team, winning in the last seconds after the score was tied...
...published contributions by most of the right left-people-John Dos Passos, John Chamberlain, John Dewey, Marquis Childs, Stephen Spender, et al. They have ground axes for India's freedom, racial equality, a nonpunitive peace. They have also succeeded for ten years in running an average deficit of around $700 a month...
...stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been postponed: once on the death of Abraham Lincoln, again on the death of Conductor Anton Seidl. One Philharmonic feature would still be familiar to Ureli Corelli Hill: With an annual deficit of about $100,000, the Philharmonic is still a losing proposition...
...lines of news, almost 8,000,000 lines of advertising (its entrenched rival, the Chicago Tribune, had 19,000,000 lines of advertising in the same period); undergone a thorough shakeup that got rid of many an ex-Hearstling in editorial executive jobs; run up an estimated deficit of $3,000,000. Editorially the Sun has also come out flatly against rape and the Tribune...