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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homeland (see cut). For weeks Japanese opposition had been dwindling-and LeMay's striking power had been increasing. Even as "The Cigar" moved his office, his bombers were returning from their biggest LeMay-conceived mission up to that time: 822 Superfortresses had gone out to lay a vast net of mines and to bomb four Japanese cities (pop. 66,000 to 127,000). Only one was lost. The big planes carried 6,632 tons of explosives-almost as much as U.S. and British airmen together had ever dropped on Europe in a single...
Steel. The steel companies, after months of public worry about their dreary prospects, did remarkably well. Bethlehem Steel Corp. sales were down to $399 million v. $471 a year ago. But taxes were down $4 million; $3 million less was charged to depreciation and depletion. Thus net profit was $8 million, a gain of $1.3 million over 1944's second quarter...
...company profits went right on gushing skyward. Net income of the Standard Oil Co. of California for the first half jumped from 1944's $9.8 million to $14.7 million. Smaller Phillips Petroleum did better; its $2.96 a share compared with $1.83 of a year ago. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) came up with an estimate of a cool $84 million v. $71 million...
...airlines, thanks to the planes they got back from the Army, were doing very well. The 16 major domestic lines upped their gross some 50% in the first five months this year, managed to up net profits to $8,617,000 from $5,666,000. Only two airlines, Colonial and Northeast, lost money...
Somehow, while hotfooting it from griddle to griddle around the world, catlike Philips managed to set up its U.S. war plants and to make money. For 1944 the American and British trusts, along with the Curagao company, reported net profits of $1.5 million...