Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milford, Mich., as guests of the corporation. Later he informed the editors that he hoped the corporation would show earnings for the second half of 1927 as great, if not even greater, than for the second half of 1926. If this hope is fulfilled, G. M. C. will show net profits of $222,195,715 as against $186,231,182 for 1926. It is the liberal policy of the directors to distribute half the profits in dividends, reinvesting the other half in the expanding business...
...bearish day last week when securities on the stock market were being heavily sold, Baldwin Locomotive stock worked its way higher, closing with a net gain for the session of over nine points. This reflected marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places...
...tournament will be posted this morning at the Tennis and Squash Shop and at the Union, and the first round should be played by Mon- day night according to Bennett, who stated that the showings in this tournament would have a bearing on the choice of the University indoor net team...
...week since last March when the Roxy theatre was opened has it entertained less than 100,000 attendance. Paid admissions the last week of August totaled $138,000, the previous week, $144,000- high records for theatrical income. For 23 weeks of showing attendance was 2,893,323, net receipts...
...Mackay Companies obligated itself, through its Radio Communication, to pay half the cost of Federal Telegraph's research laboratories. The arrangement is quite like that kept by Western Electric Co. and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Federal Telegraph had assets, Dec. 31, 1925, of $5,715,383 and net operating profits for that year of $117,061. The acquisition of Federal Telegraph's Pacific Coast radio system seems to put the Mackay Companies in command of transpacific communications, and may put to naught Western Union's contemplated permalloy cable. Mackay Companies, through Commercial Pacific Cable Co., owns...