Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were still, however, a few individual surprises. Biggest was that of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which netted a modest $357,347 in last year's first quarter, jumped that almost seven-fold to $2,412,471 this year.* The Texas Co., prospering with the rest of the oil industry upped its net a fat 48% to $11,878,754. General Motors set the pace for the auto industry, now at top war production, with a rise from...
...Boston Braves' baffler throws a poky knuckle ball that dips and waltzes down & out just as it reaches the plate. Said the Dodgers' Mickey Owen last week: "What we needed was a net." Tobin walked Paul Waner, the first man up; breezed by the next 26; walked Waner again in the ninth, struck out Dixie Walker to end the game (2 to 0). Tobin himself hit a home run for good measure. Afterwards he guessed aloud that he was just about 'as happy as the time he hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs...
...itself of its prewar Germanic taint by flooding Latin America, where it used to act as agent for huge I. G. Farbenindustrie, with strictly U.S. drugs. In so doing, it: 1) surprised itself by making a lot of money (over $700,000 last year, almost 10% of its total net income); 2) became a potent agent in U.S. economic warfare. Starting from 'scratch on aspirin, for example - which used to be a $3,500,000-a-year I. G. business - Sterling has now developed more than that for its own trademarked product. Total gross in Latin America...
...nevertheless twelve elderly men & women stripped to the buff, knelt and howled. Passers-by knew that the sensitive Doukhobors had been offended again, were resorting to their favorite passive protest.* Among the onlookers stalked a bearded man, wearing 21 oranges in a double-deck crown held together by a net and three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement. The Czar understands that Christ will soon...
...Net income for the parent company, Mr. Behn reported, was $1,284,184 last year v. a deficit of $1,021,537 in 1942; on a consolidated basis it was $5,528,939 - a cool two and a half times the previous year, and the highest since booming, peaceful 1937. Yet the consolidated figures not only excluded I. T. & T.'s European manufacturing subsidiaries (representing 16.6% of its total investments) and its Spanish telephone properties (22.5%), but also its two-thirds share in the net income of American Cable & Radio Corp., which earned...