Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...durable goods companies were up 317% over the first six months of 1939. They were down 3.1% from 1939's export-boomed second half, but only because of higher tax and depreciation reserves. Among the star performers, Pullman, Inc.'s $3,443,662 six-month net, up 220%, and American Locomotive's $1,178,470, up from a $931,710 deficit, measured increased buying by U. S. railroads. Both companies were also working on war orders. The demand for conveyors, chain drives, stokers, etc., for new or expanding plants, increased Link Belt Co.'s earnings...
...carry and pay off the $92,000,000 RFC is planning to lend it. Republic Aviation Corp. earned $842,161 compared with a $524,781 deficit for all of last year. Airlines continued their uptrend. United turned a 1939 first-half deficit of $202,962 into a $288,554 net profit; Eastern in creased net 102% to $733,926. But T. W. A., its pockets emptied buying Stratoliners, had a $390,680 deficit...
...another announcement last week: Jim Farley, who needs a good paying job, will leave the Post Office Department to become chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp. Eastman Kodak, which still gets a third of its sales from amateur photographers, also makes money from plastics, reported $9,179,170 net, up 13.7% for 24 weeks ending June 15. For the first six months, stores were up too: J. C. Penney 4%, American Stores...
Dust hath closed Helen's eye-"It was quite irrelevant, really, a lament by Nashe in time of pestilence. . . . Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion...
...Miniver is haunted by evanescence. Each of her little sketches has the same haunted quality, an echo of the sense of time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful...