Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year the Santa Fe handled an average of 12,400 passengers per day on its trains. It might lose several hundred of these to airplanes and not be affected seriously. The increased travel by rail due to the growth of the country would probably make up for any loss such as this. The airplane certainly will not affect us in the same degree that the automobile has done. In 1920 we handled approximately 15,000,000 passengers-in 1928 approximately 4,500,000- the decrease being due entirely to automobile and bus. In the case of the automobile...
...shares of the Hatry group from listing on 'Change the august Stock Exchange Committee loosed a thunderbolt not previously hurled at any British corporation, a dreadful weapon supposed to be reserved for interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which...
...days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice President Benjamin B. Peabody of the New York Exchange unhesitatingly attributed the crash in coffee futures to "disquieting rumors...
...sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...
...cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish...