Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of its vessels has been a godsend to U.S. Lines. Over 80% of its $3,801,180 net income in 1940 came from sale of its ships. The America, its No. 1 money-loser, was the climax. She was built to replace the old Leviathan, whose owners patted her poop whenever she lost less than $75,000 a trip. The America did a little better than that. But since her commissioning last summer she has lost something like...
...Because of crashes and worn-out planes, the net increase was less than the total deliveries...
Today American Viscose accounts for 31% of the rayon produced in the U.S. Biggest customer is Burlington Mills of Greensboro, N.C. Total net sales have gone from a 1932 low of $30,743,035 to the 1940 high...
...bored, toward the harrowing pictures in the press, cinema, and slick-paper magazines of the distress caused by the war abroad. It was perhaps inevitable that this sort of immunity should set in, concerned as people are with "the larger issues" of the war effort itself. Nevertheless, if the net result of Harvard's recent British war-relief drive can be taken as typical, this tendency has reached appalling proportions. Three thousand five hundred undergraduates contributed a grand total of less than...
...probable net yield for their plan: well over...