Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accord represented a diplomatic rout, compensated only by the fact that by appeasing Turkey, France has weaned President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk further away from Germany. For Turkey it was a victory for strong-man policies. For Syria, occupation of the Sanjak by Turkish troops means a loss of her one good harbor at Alexandretta. The Sanjak cannot legally become Turkish without League of Nations sanction, but with Turkish troops there it will be an easy matter to slip the strategic territory into Dictator Kamal Atatürk's outstretched arms...
Within just two minutes and four seconds, Brown Bomber Louis gave all this elaborate and expensive machinery every bit of use it needed. When the books were balanced, NBC could count as maximum paper loss the profit on time charges for what might have been an additional broadcasting hour, came out with a profit on the flat rate Buick paid for the fight, the 15 minutes of time sold. Buick lost the potential advertising mentions planned at three or four round intervals, put on the air the longer opening and closing announcements. These totaled three minutes and 48 seconds...
Uncompensated loss was Blow-by-blower Clem McCarthy's. The loss: his poise. Son of an auctioneer and veterinary dentist, he is vociferous, deft-tongued, sportswise by inheritance, has a record of 244 words a minute. Still warming to his work when Champion Louis had finished his, Ringsider McCarthy was reduced to dithering bewilderment. His most absurd dither: "This is the shortest fight on record wherein a title changed hands...
...Loans are reclassified as I, II, III, IV, instead of "slow," "doubtful," and "loss," and bankers may make sound commercial loans for longer than nine months without the loans being criticized by examiners as "slow...
...enlarge its index of engineering articles. Between 1927 and 1934, A. S. M. E. lost $215,000 on the index. Last week, in New York Supreme Court, Justice William H. Black said he would appoint a referee to decide whether certain members of the council were liable for this loss, ordered a referendum of the society to see if it thought the index was a good idea, seized the opportunity to abuse Mr. Schwab and these associates: "Inconceivable ignorance . . . flagrant instance of inattention . . . heedlessness of duty. . . ." Reason for Justice Black's fury was their inability to remember what happened...