Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows that the addition or the loss of a single subscriber is of little moment to any paper and yet if the loss of any considerable number of persons for the same reason occurs, there is a natural desire to know what that reason...
...such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon the U. S. to compensate Florida citrus growers for loss of property incident to the Federal program of destruction and quarantine...
...plants and thus "forestall financial ruin and consequent distress to numerous communities through enforced idleness of thousands of workers." In other words, having bought big stakes in New England, the Insulls must now help keep New England alive. They can afford to run a few textile mills at a loss if that will keep the workers there to buy light...
...Gibbs McAdoo Jr. resigned as first vice president, remained a director. Last year Hiram S. Brown resigned from the presidency to become head of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Low hide and leather prices resulted in a first quarter deficit of $843,674. Second quarter even less profitable.) First half, net loss 1,969,439 First half, net profit...
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