Word: lossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleasing as those figures were to natty Grover Whalen, they still left him with a big fiscal headache. In twelve weeks attendance totaled some 14,700,000 (including almost 3,500,000 free admissions), about half what he had hoped for. He had forecast a $4,000,000 loss if only 40,000,000 people came to the Fair the first year, a $1,000,000 profit on 50,000,000. With three months to go, it appeared that he would be lucky to get 30,000,000. Tip-off on his Big Show's fiscal status...
...five and a half years Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has guaranteed U. S. bank depositors against loss on deposits up to $5,000. Meanwhile, deposits of commercial banks have increased from $39,562,000,000 to $51,355,000,000 and U. S. bankers have sweated trying to make the billions earn money. Stagnant business and stagnant real estate have reduced the wage that a banker's dollars can earn. To keep them from becoming unemployed he has had to hire more & more of them to the Government. Today all banks have 30% of their total deposits on "relief...
Correspondents were at a loss to know why the Italians, just at the height of the tourist season, had deprived themselves of badly needed foreign exchange. The Italian explanations were not much help. First, it was announced that foreigners were ordered out because of widespread "espionage" in the South Tyrol. Next, they had to go for "military" reasons...
...firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled out of the TVA fight, selling four operating companies to Government competitors, leaving Willkie (of whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy harassing Japanese communications...