Word: loss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...
...Yankees saw their lead vanish as Boston drew up into a dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second and the Sox went out in front...
...fiscal 1949, CCC poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened...
Some Potatoes. In theory the $2.3 billion already laid out will be recouped when CCC sells its holdings, but in actual practice the taxpayer has been hit with some fantastic losses. Because of a potato surplus in 1947, the Department of Agriculture last year restricted the acreage. But farmers simply planted rows closer together and presented CCC with a bumper crop of 446 million bushels. Net loss to date: $203 million. In the coming potato season Congress may get tougher and tell farmers, not how many acres they can plant, but how many bushels they can grow...
...Yankees knocked the first half-game off the Red Sox lead by beating the Philadelphia Athletics, 7 to 5, yesterday afternoon in the Yankee Stadium, reliefers Page and Kellner getting the win and loss...