Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have heard morons say that our export is only 10% of our total output of goods and that consequently there is no need to get hot and bothered about that 10%. It is just like saying that the net profit of a firm is only 6% of the gross business done and that there is no use to worry about that. Year in and year out we manage to show a favorable trade balance with the countries with which we do business. That 10% just about represents what we net...
...aircraft manufacturers in Washington to find a way out of a very big bottle with a very tight neck. Defense orders mean that many manufacturers must put up new plants, put in new tools which may be of no use when Defense demands end. Manufacturers therefore want to net enough from the Defense orders to pay for the new facilities, definitely do not want to risk paying ruinous taxes on worthless property (as many had to do after World War I). Said the U. S. Chamber of Commerce last week: ". . . Probabilities of ultimate loss are so great that...
...Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money in a bank in Brussels. The Germans occupied Belgium. I had my house and belongings in Nice. The Germans have occupied France...
...business in 1928, went $7,000,000 into debt, emerged at the top of the manufacturing heap, ahead of RCA (on whose patents Philco depended). Hit by strikes in 1937 and 1938, it came back last year, for the year ended last March had a $2,359,767 net. Until last week Philco stock was owned by fewer than 100 people, most of them Philco directors, officers or employes...
...giant whose service contracts cover all U. S. railroads. Since 1900 Pullman and its subsidiaries have manufactured all U. S. sleeping cars except 15. It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales. If any car fails to gross a net sum (normally $9,000 yearly) to cover its share of Pullman expenses (porters, linens, maintenance, etc.) and what Pullman calls a fair return, Pullman keeps the car's entire sleeping ticket revenue. If the car earns more than its set fee, Pullman splits (usually 50-50) the excess with the railroads at year...