Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled William Lemke, whose Union Party vote for President was piddling, easily topped the field for re-election to his present Republican...
...carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver...
...profits, a measure calculated to spur any directorate to generous treatment of stockholders. What was significant was that U. S. Steel's directors had the means with which to be generous. In the past five years the net result of U. S. Steel's operations was a loss of $132,000,000. In announcing the dividend action Chairman Myron Charles Taylor reported that U. S. Steel's profits for the third quarter of 1936 were $13,600,000, for the first nine months of the year, $29,800,000. In the first nine months of last year...
...Schmidt out of Harvard team, but Crimson cannot Ford to Brooks, defeat. Booth the teams Acree in expecting to Winter day but Harlowmen with only two weeks to Yale game when they must Fell like King of gridiron must win easy. Chapel bell in Virginia will be Tolin for loss, for potent Harvard will win 20 to 13. Adlis this is old Dr. Huey's prediction, and he expects Yale and Princeton to lose...
...uniformly liked by everyone with whom he comes in contact. He plays to win, but defeats--and the simon pures will always get their full share--do not upset him unduly. If the team has done its best, he can begin another week after a crushing loss with no regrets, enveloped in no cloud of gloom. And who is there now to say that he is not an able coach...