Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sign for all to see was the price of Standard Brands common, which hit 37⅜ in depression 1933, thumped down to its record low, 5⅜, last December and this week was hovering around 7. Broad explanation was that while Standard Brands net sales were holding up fairly well, the profit margin was growing narrower and narrower. In 1937, beating the bushes with such radio headliners as Rudy Vallée (for Fleischmann's Yeast and Royal Gelatin Desserts), wooden Charlie McCarthy (for Chase & Sanborn Dated Coffee), "One Man's Family" (for Tender Leaf Tea), Standard Brands...
...stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What that means was handsomely illustrated in C-P-P's preliminary annual report for 1939, out last week. Total sales were a whopping $101,935,438-highest in the company's history. Net profit was a neat $6,632,654 -highest since 1931, 35% over...
Harry Turner, Bengal left wing, scored the goal which clinched the Tiger victory, with only 55 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson's lone tally came in the opening minutes of the last stanza when Captain Bill Coleman took Skip Ervin's pass and slipped it into the net after a pile up around the Princeton goal, trying the game...
...sextet the scare of its life several times on solo dashes down the ice through the whole Bengal team, but to no avail. The Crimson almost scored another marker at the close of the second period when a low puck bounced off Dave Eaton's chest almost into the net...
...second and third cantos but was unable to click more than once, finally succumbing before a fast Tiger attack at 14:05 in the third period. Ralph Wyer passed the puck to Bill MacCoy, who took a shot at the goal which Turner was able to deflect into the net from the edge of the crease...