Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal magnates answer this latter statement by saying that the investment in the coal industry is about $8 per ton of annual production, and that a bare 6 per cent on this investment would require a net profit of 48 cents a ton, or 20 cents more than the miners consider sufficient...
...Mississippi Valley gateways into four great systems. As designated these would be the Burlington, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific systems, all reaching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to tap the Panama traffic and to the Pacific Coast to meet the Oriental trade. Net income and investment of each of these lines would be about the same...
...report was issued by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lieutenant- Colonel Amery. The net naval estimates are put at ?58,000,000, showing a decrease of about ?8,000,000 sterling. Colonel Amery says that the estimates have been drawn up on the presumption that all countries will ratify the Washington Naval Agreement...
That general business conditions throughout the country have experienced marked improvement in recent months is attested by the compilation of gross and net earnings of Class I roads for January last, published this week. The net operating revenue, amounting to 5.54 per cent of property valuation, is not sensational-last March the percentage touched 5.83. But the earnings of this January resulted from much larger gross receipts, although operating expenses had exceeded those of January, 1922, by more than 20 per cent. This increased expense has, of course, largely been occasioned by much needed purchasing and repairing of equipment, impossible...
...final event of the afternoon, the pole vault, was won by J. D. Martindale, who had a handicap of 8 inches, with a net height of 11 feet 5 inches. With one inch less, L. O. Combs '26, allowance 16 inches., gained second place, a tie for third place resulting when D. D. Reidy Jr. '23, with a 6 inch handicap, and W. T. Reidy '25, with 18 inches, both had a net height of 11 feet. The former won the toss...