Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a grievous fallacy in the charge that the removal of prejudices entails loss of ideals; and if, from the welter of advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light...
...Hyde Park home Franklin D. Roosevelt solemnly expressed his profound shock and grief at the loss of his "old friend." In Washington Vice President Garner said: "That is awful bad. I can't talk about...
...DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street...
...necessary to put the distribution system in order. . . . Mr. Roosevelt did not accept the outright donation. Instead ... he deeded the Foundation's electric distribution system to our company without cost. As a result, the company stood the expense of rehabilitation and, in addition, the Foundation was saved the loss it had previously incurred in operating the distribution system...
...Steel's loss for the six months was $2,936,000 against a deficit of $1,639,000 in the same period last year. Taken by the quarters, the results were not so bad as they appeared. Whereas U. S. Steel lost $2,173,000 in the first quarter of 1935, its deficit for the second quarter was only $762,000. Better still was the operating profit per ton of steel. On each of 3,553,999 tons delivered, the company made an operating profit of about $7.50 against $5.36 for the full year 1934. Thus it was clear...