Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airlines did their biggest job in history, it was the airmail division of the Post Office which collected over half the ante. The division's reported profit for fiscal 1942, after deduction of its own direct expenses, was a record $8 million-more than half the total net earnings of all 18 U.S. domestic airlines. Next year the division will probably earn a cool $22 million or perhaps better, thanks mostly to an ace in the hole: Though it will slash rates paid to the airlines, it will probably maintain the present 6? airmail letter rate to U.S. citizens...
...cash and securities totaled $41,691,000, surplus was $29,515,000, total assets $84,218,000. Sales figures were less impressive, ranged from 1926's $26,769,000 to 1932's $7,715,000. But the key to the company's prosperity was the lusty net-to-sales ratio-in the 1926-34 period earnings were never less than 24? per $1 of sales, after all taxes...
...railroads turned in a net operating income of $1,480,000,000, which will probably result in net profits of $960,000,000, the highest on record...
...pledged everything up to our homes and children. If my wife [Cinemactress Margaret Sullavan] had ever known she would have shot me." Hayward's break came when the Army decided pilot-training schools were too risky for private capital, got Defense Plants Corp. to buy Thunderbird for its net cost price. Now Hayward gets a straight fee per cadet-hour flown, pays rent to DPC, keeps the balance for instructors, gas and maintenance...
Left. By the late Duke of Kent, killed in a plane crash last August: an estate valued at $692,300. Net value of his personal property: $393,248. Contents of the will were kept private, as all wills of British royalty have been since...