Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement touched on another sore spot-labor turnover. In February, out of every 1,000 war workers, 65 quit. Only 53 could be recruited to take their places, a net loss of twelve men per 1,000 in the nation's war-plant labor force...
...Ward's was mum, but stricken. A.F. of L. teamsters, in sympathy with the strikers, refused to pick up or deliver to the stores. The U.S. Post Office withdrew 30 idling mail clerks who normally handle Ward's outgoing mail-order business, second biggest in the U.S. (Net mail-order sales last year...
...Stabilization has brought tangible-indeed bankable-benefits to all groups. Corporation profits, both before and after taxes, rose in 1943 even above the record-breaking levels of 1942. The net income of farm operators similarly moved up. . . . Average weekly earnings [of workers] have moved up to new high ground...
...mostly good. For the first time gum became "essential." Wrigley's, which sells more than half of the chewing gum in the world, was able to keep operating profits up to $22,900,000 last year, 7% above 1942, and even to squeeze out a small increase in net income (to $6,800,000). Besides that, Phil Wrigley collected a fine file-drawer full of testimonials on what gum does to increase efficiency...
Next day the Germans poured in crack parachute troops and the battle degenerated into ding-dong fighting in the town and on the hills, each side gaining little and suffering heavy losses. Net result: the ugly situation shown above...