Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Net result: Japan's advance was slowed, its cost in money and men was immeasurably increased; the U. S. in slow retreat surrendered nothing in principle, up to last week had lost remarkably little in substance...
This setup will give modest, canny, homespun Ike Tigrett a chance to step up the $427,388 net profit his road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other...
...sold by trading their common stock to Standard's own bondholders. These bondholders would thus own equities close to the meterboxes, while Standard would rid itself of perhaps $35,000,000 in debt. If allowed to keep Pittsburgh and the Midwest, the Standard system would have a net property investment of around $470,000,000. Smaller, it would nevertheless be stronger, better able to grow up with its two chosen regions...
...Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen went the big, full-time jobs. Most of their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still...
Wealthier grew the Blausteins, fatter grew Pan Am. Pan Am acquired famed Lago Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, built the great Aruba island refinery in the Dutch West Indies. For 1932, Amoco and subsidiaries turned in a net profit of $4,149,200, up 1,075% from the year the Pan Am deal was made. But meanwhile Louis Blaustein awakened one morning to find his worst fears confirmed: Standard of Indiana, after quietly buying up Pan Am stock, was in control of the production and refining end of his business...