Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales by 20% to 30%. On the contrary, newsstand buyers took it like lambs: sale of the February issue slipped not more than 5%. (Actual sales were up 10% over the previous 10? issue. But February normally shows a gain of 15% over January, hence the 5% net loss...
...plans to keep Jim Apthrop in his newly-installed post of right wing, a slot in which he replaced Ned Harding. Tommy Ayres and Bud Collinson complete the front line, Captain Dick Mechem and Orrin Wood will be in their familiar defensive positions, and Jim Summers will guard the net...
With 1942 revenues up from higher rates on more traffic, the railroads can probably maintain their 1942 net profits at around $500,000,000, on a par with last year. In comparison with any year since 1930, this is profit indeed (see chart, which covers Class I roads). But for the railroads the '30s were a bankruptcy decade; and bankruptcy is no condition in which...
...national viewpoint, the important question is not whether $500,000,000 is a lot of money, but what the railroads do with it. So far, they have not dribbled it away. In the last two years long-parched stockholders got $360,000,000-about 50% of the 1940-41 net. In the same two years the roads repaid $117,529,000 to PWA and RFC, thus cutting their Government debts to $455,244,000, less than half their total original borrowings. Moreover, many a railroad learned well the No. 1 lesson of the '30s: that fixed charges...
...Crimson pucksters jumped to an early lead when Hamlen, second line wing, rammed one into the net at 4:20 of the first period. Rindge countered with a marker by Benoit in 9:15 of the same period...