Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week they had heard their new President (quiet, deft Walter Sherman Gifford) announce with pleasure that 57,000 employes* (with an average of 10 shares each) would share with the 362,179 shareholders of the company in the $107,405,046 net profits of 1925. This amounts to $11.79 a share on the $911,181,400 average stock outstanding, against the $11.31 on the $805,145,900 of 1924. The company's business has been prospering steadily. Gross income in 1925 was $180,458,912 against $154,082,836 the previous year. Dividends at 9% just declared total...
...vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal flecked through and through with tiny flakes of softest gold...
...last year was really a bad year for Baldwin. Mr. Vauclain has just had published to stockholders the year's statement, as of Dec. 31. Profits were only $196,563 net-the lowest since 1912. That meant only 81? a share on the $20,000,000 of 7% preferred outstanding. But the 1925 common and preferred dividend requirements amount to $2,800,000. The difference had to come from the surplus fund, leaving therein a balance...
Nevertheless enough of their shots were accurate to give Captain Cumings in the Harvard net plenty of opportunity to display his skill. It was the Crimson leader's last intercollegiate appearance on the ice, and it was largely due to him that the Cambridge rigging did not become fouled under Yale's insistent attack, which reached its height in the scoreless second stanza...
Yale continued to threaten in the closing session and Frey and Ferguson, the bespectacled Eli center, staged some team play that kept Cumings constantly busy. With only two minutes left to play, Yale sent five men down the ice and the Crimson net guardian was subjected to a shower of shots from all angles. With the timekeeper's eyes glued on his watch, Pratt picked off one of the Eli rebounds and skated the length of the rink to sink Harvard's second tally, 40 seconds before the official end of the hockey season. The summary follows: HARVARD YALE Gross...