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Losses were incurred in some cases: chiefly naval defense housing, where the profit average was lowest (3.89%); and naval aviation contracts, where expensive specification changes caused 30.78% of all contracts to suffer losses, and the profit average was 4.59%. Highest individual profit on a contract was 247%-which may have been on a dinky contract. The committee found no cause to regard the high returns as shocking...
...minority member of the committee, Progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette wrote a separate report, sharply attacking Senator Byrd's findings. The cuts proposed, said Bob La Follette, would fall on the neck of "the very lowest income groups among our population," would cripple programs of social reform which are "vital to the successful conduct of total war. . . . No one can disagree with the general objective," added La Follette. "The crux of the matter is . . . 'where is the waste...
Just before the U.S. press began to sing a diapason of approval for the U.S. declaration of war-in the week that closed the night before Pearl Harbor-interventionist sentiment in the press had slumped to its lowest point since last spring. According to the survey of James S. Twohey Associates it stood at 54%-as against 84% eleven weeks earlier...
...most brilliant of all U.S. dividend records was tarnished last week when Manhattan's First National Bank cut its fourth-quarter payment from $25 to $20, thus placed the shares on an $80 annual basis, lowest since 1924. The stock promptly nose-dived 80 points to $1,230 per share...
Exchange President Emil Schram made a quick check of all orders this week before allowing the market to open. After a smart morning rally, stocks retreated slowly, closed 1 to 4 points down and at the lowest level since mid-1938, bottom of the Roosevelt recession...