Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to know the source of your information when you say, "the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull." If you mean that 20,000,000 people, about one in every six, in this country have sufficient hearing loss to constitute a problem in their daily affairs, the statement is absurd on the face of it. Look about you at your acquaintances. How many are bothered by a hearing loss? If there were 20,000,-ooo you would see them everywhere...
...Russo-Finnish crisis having lapsed temporarily into the name-calling stage, big bad news in the Baltic last week came from Sweden. There the national budget, for years as soundly balanced as the Great Wallendas, was shown to have taken a terrific topple from the high wire. Loss of revenues due to wartime trade curtailment, plus the cost of keeping the Army and Navy mobilized for emergency, plus armament purchases and providing urban Swedes with gas masks and air-raid shelters, had largely done the job. Finance Minister Dr. Ernst Wigforss announced that since he reported balance to the Riksdag...
Thus Philadelphia's transit system finally emerged from behind the eight ball. The reorganization will save $5,800,000 in fixed charges each year-enough to boost 1935's $6,139,654 loss toward a 1940 profit. It will also free enough cash to get the company started on a 10-year, $22,000,000 modernization program to replace its lumbering trolley cars and sway-backed busses...
...Macdonald attempting to pass, was bounced for a 7 yard loss...
Gardner reports that the Japanese "can hardly afford to remain long under present conditions, but withdrawal is difficult without serious loss of prestige...