Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain and France. Along the Pyrenees (see map, pp. 28 & 29) the French have railway spurs running up into high country at the Spanish border; the Spanish, on the other hand, have few such spurs-and also few good roads...
...most interesting. Three of the big makers-Curtiss-Wright, Douglas and North American- showed net profits ranging from 27% to 200% over the first six months of 1938. Boeing, still charging off development expense on its big four-motored jobs, showed a net loss of $183,550. Martin, slowed up in production while it tooled its factory for a 215-plane French bomber order, netted $967,624 (31.7% under 1938's first half) but looked forward to a whopping second half in 1939 as production got under...
...balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger counters will be transmitted to the men on the ground through their short-wave receiving set, will be recorded on a slender tape. Disappearance of the apparatus after the balloons burst will be no great loss, for the scientists will have on their tapes a permanent record of cosmic ray activity...
...heavily than his competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened to run away, Goodyear bought heavily, and when Depression II got under way, Goodyear had to take a $10,343,000 loss-in spite of which Goodyear had enough operating profit left over...
...inventory write-down which put it $878,580 in the red (even after a $593,249 profit on foreign exchange). But last week, Goodrich's President Samuel Brown Robertson reported sales up 27.4%, a $3,122,728 profit, instead of last year's $209,551 loss...