Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail stocks once more. The reason was not the simple fact that the defense boom was catching up with the rails, upping their nine-month revenues 9% (to $3,125,855,000) over the same period of 1939. It was barely suggested by the companion fact that when rail net rises above the break-even (interest-covering) point, leverage raises it much faster than the gross. The 9% increase in gross served as a lever on which 137 of the roads hoisted their combined net...
...centuries seriously alter Shakespeare's comedy. It can be richly indecent as in Measure for Measure, swift and slapstick as in The Taming of the Shrew. It can also be very mild, very mannered-as in Twelfth Night. The Guild production of the play is exquisite, but the net effect is that of a high ritual of antique jokes...
...first Kyser picture, That's Right, You're Wrong, appeared twelve months ago. Financed jointly by R. K. O., oval-shaped Director David Butler and Kyser, it was completed for a paltry $300,000, trapped $1,000,000 worth of customers. Kyser drew $100,000 net profit from the highly speculative enterprise with only the $5,000 weekly salary of his band to be deducted. Other studios, gasping at the result, quickly signed up further favorites of the jitterbug generation, for pictures that are now on their way. Paramount put Artie Shaw into Second Chorus, Orrin Tucker...
...York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine my amazement and disgust to find that she had been allowed $2 for each pound sent. After a deduction of 25? collection charges by our local bank, Mrs. Ennor received a net...
...first parish in One Foot in Heaven: The Life of a Practical Parson (Whittlesey House; $2.50). The Rev. William H (for nothing) Spence was a Methodist minister who in 30 years of pastorates in Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska never left a parish with less than a 25% net increase in its membership. You seemed to hear an organ playing Onward, Christian Soldiers when he came into the room...