Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination. For one thing, he would have New York's huge block of delegates in his pocket...
...from satisfied with the job UNRRA was doing already, U.S. Representatives voted to give the huge relief agency still another job. The House approved a $550 million appropriation for UNRRA, but attached a string: the money could be spent only in countries which granted the U.S. press full freedom to report UNRRA doings...
...important new fact in the China puzzle is that Chinese policy, bursting out of its beleaguered mountain fortresses, has physically arrived at the Great Wall. Beyond lies Manchuria - steel mills, huge reserves of iron ore, coal and magnesite, pulpwood, rich farmland - all the prizes for which the statesmen and economists have yearned. Of immediate importance, destitution or prosperity in Shanghai depends upon getting coal from the North...
Best example was huge Bethlehem Steel Corp. It made more money this year than last. Yet its net income for the quarter dropped to $22,100,000, little more than half that of the same quarter in 1944. Reason: it wrote off $44,000,000 in deferred amortization (depreciation, purchase of new facilities, etc.), came up with a $27 million deficit and thus cut its taxes so much that it had actually overpaid them in the first part of this year. This tax credit was more than enough to offset the deficit in income, thus gave Bethlehem a reported...
...Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...