Word: losings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats, motor torpedo boats, but Russia's clumsy battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds...
Last summer, at an age when most hockey players put away their skates for good, 36-year-old Eddie Shore bought the minor-league Springfield (Mass.) Indians with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
...transfer Broun stands to lose both money and circulation. Scripps-Howard gave him $39,000 a year, close to 3,000,000 readers. From the Post he admits that he will get "considerably less" in salary, plus whatever he nets on syndicate sales. The Post's circulation is only 252,145, compared to the World-Telegram's 414,759. And some papers that now use his column will undoubtedly drop...
...business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying $1,000,000 a share...
...least $1,000,000. Meanwhile other manufacturers took to making their own truck bodies. In 1930 General Motors bought up the Martin-Parry bodyworks for something like $900,000. By 1932 Martin-Parry sales were only $29,141, and on the $29,141 the company managed to lose...