Word: loss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moan and become vehement over the lack of taste and the low standards of the Jazz-mad, Whoopee young people of the day. These pessimists are no doubt permanent fixtures of society, but if they were to glance about with a little more regard for facts and a little loss regard for their own enviable position, the story would be of quite another color; and a color more favorable to the pathetic, abused Orphans of the Culture Reform storms: the wild present generation...
...wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places, 23? in large chain systems), the second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing them $6 per 1,000 the package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while at two for 23? it has been .92?. Since the package price...
...There was a point last week when the stock of General Motors showed a theoretical loss of over a billion and a quarter dollars ($1,228,000,000) from its year's high. But of all the badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings...
...Harvard University cross country team opens its season today at 3 o'clock against the Holy Cross Harriers. Handicapped by the loss of the Intercollegiate Cross Country Champion, J. L. Reid '29, and two of his class-mates, J. O. Wildes '29 and Leslie Flaksman '29, Coach Jaako Mikkola has been working hard with a squad captained by R. C. Aldrich '31, and composed almost entirely of Juniors and Sophomores. In the starting lineup are listed the names of five of the class of 1932, headed by N. P. Hallowell '32, who earned his University "H" by placing second...
...able to pound out, however, were largely the result of sloppy tackling. On the offensive the Crimson line did not show a consistent life. Players frequently cross-charged ineffectively, allowing opposing forwards to sift through and it was only the shifty running of the backs which prevented a resultant loss of ground...