Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissioner Payne concluded by demanding, before Sept. 13, a full WLW balance sheet, profit and loss statement, dividend statement, figures on broadcasting rates...
...rule in large homogeneous shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that considerations of employe safety make it necessary. They say that hand signals cannot easily be seen from...
...Police boats, Coast Guard craft and private speedboats swarmed to the rescue while the City of Baltimore burned almost to the waterline. Although the scene was reminiscent of the Morro Castle, the casualty list was small -three dead, two missing at week's end. This was the first loss of passenger life at sea by fire or collision on U. S. vessels since the safety campaign which got under way two years ago after the Ward Line disasters (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935). The City of Baltimore's Captain Charles O. Brooks said he suspected sabotage, because his brother...
...months ending June 30 Hupp Motor Car Corp. last week reported a net loss of $349,966 against a net loss of $479,551 for the first half of 1936. In a year of booming automobile sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...
TIME regrets mistaking the manner of TWA Pilot Tomlinson's leaving the Navy, from whose Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur he received the following sentiments when his honorable resignation was accepted in 1929: "The Department regrets that you find it necessary . . . and will feel the loss of your services. It is hoped that you will enjoy prosperity, health and happiness in civil life...