Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial aviation he made a superb mess of it. Aroused by Senator Hugo Black's airmail contract investigation, the President precipitately directed cancellation of all airmail contracts (TIME, Feb. 39, 1934, et seq.). The Army was ordered to fly the mail, which it proceeded to do with a loss of twelve lives in eleven weeks. Months later, when the airlines finally got all their mail subsidy back, it was under the supervision of a newly constituted Air Mail Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in the form of one-year contracts under which the carriers were never certain...
...William M. Wood took over the management of certain textile mills belonging to the Ayer interests which had operated on part time for three years at a loss; he put all mills at full capacity, cut prices to the bone, soon made so much money that the company expanded into the vast American Woolen...
...playing excellent tennis even though he had become a father during the tournament. With this victory Donald Budge became the only player ever to hold the Big Four championships of ten-nis (U. S., Australian, French, English) simultaneously and the only man ever to win at Wimbledon without the loss of a set. Next day he won the men's doubles (with Gene Mako) and the mixed doubles (with Alice Marble), and became the only person ever to win three Wimbledon championships two years in a row. But by complete supremacy 23-year-old Donald Budge relegated himself...
...consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
...This gave eastern roads new hope that ICC may look favorably on their renewed petition for higher coach passenger fares. Meanwhile last week, the railroad unions agreed to discuss the proposed 15% wage cut at a meeting July 20 and Class I roads as a group reported a net loss...