Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provision to carry over net business losses and deduct them from business profits of future years. "A business with alternating profit and loss now pays higher taxes over a period of years than does a business with stable profits although the average income of the two firms may be equal...
...when the E-6 went down at its moorings with a torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch...
Final. Virginia Gayda, II Duce's journalistic shadow, confided that there were "secret conventions" in the Italian-German treaty, said the pact was a "final invitation" to Great Britain and France to "collaborate" in a European peace. Neither he nor any of his colleagues was at a loss to describe what they meant by "collaboration": Great Britain and France were to provide the dictator countries with "vital living spaces...
...still Edouard Daladier, but he had grave doubts how much longer he would remain Premier of France. At that conference he had written off, as a total loss, the strong alliances which since the World War had kept France the biggest power in Europe. He had been caught in a corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect...
...dollar fees. But, said vigorous Dr. Lloyd C. Warren of Franklin, N. Y., 40% of this gross income must be spent for transportation and medical supplies. So the doctor's average net income is seldom more than $3,000. "Obstetrical cases," said Dr. Warren, "are about 50% loss. Automobile accidents . . . are about 100% charity . . . and the boys with venereal disease never come back...