Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midyear demands for texts are always fewer than September requirements, merchants disclosed, for in many courses volumes purchased in the fell are used during both semesters...
...seemed to be no midyear freak, either. It was almost certain that the budget would still be in balance at fiscal year's end; it was quite probable that Canada would have a surplus...
...Douglas or G.M.'s Charles E. Wilson or Big Steel's Ben Fairless. All together, they had sweated and strained to get war production to its peak and keep it there. The production lines spewed out so many tanks, planes and materiel of all kinds that, by midyear, the problem was considered no longer one of production but of cutbacks...
Flowing Gold. Standard Oil of New Jersey turned in a whopping $71,000,000 of estimated profit at midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...
...midyear G.M., along with the rest of U.S. business, was well aware that profit figures had become deceptive, mainly because of the increasing complexities of tax and reconversion problems. Actually G.M. made less this year, after taxes and renegotiation reserves, than last. Its profits were up mainly because it no longer needed to siphon off some $16,000,000 into its postwar fund, as it did the first half of last year. Few businessmen dared estimate 1944's total earnings on the basis of the first half. The end of the European war might make the most careful present...