Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood's Gone With the Wind arrived in Washington last week. For the second night's performance a mysterious, big-hearted donor bought out the Palace Theatre, resold the 2,357 seats at $3 to $10 each and turned over the $13,000 net profit to Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund...
...carried 130 men & officers (about 23 over their normal complement) and the Germans announced taking alive 30 from their two known victims, it appeared that the Seahorse perished with all hands, probably after bumping a mine, that the Starfish and Undine were crippled by depth charges or caught in nets. Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh...
...charities and family went $369,067 net (including $246,769 in Egyptian bonds) from the estate of Pearl (Perils of Pauline) White, whose episodic escapes from death & worse left cinemaudiences of 25 years ago in weekly anguish and to whom death came inescapably...
...below late 1938, with no new orders coming in. Gasoline inventories rose to a dizzy 84,326,000 barrels, partly because producers are having difficulty in curtailing gasoline production now that its byproduct, fuel oil, is in demand. Meanwhile, wholesale gasoline prices, cut three times since Dec. 1 (net cut: ⅜? a gallon) were dropped another...
Cold as a surgeon's amputation was ICC's plan, which needs only the approval of the Federal Court at St. Louis to become effective. Under the management of Trustee Guy Atwood Thompson, onetime American Bar Association president, MOP has turned in a net operating income of between five and eleven millions a year. ICC whittled down fixed interest charges to fit, from $24,770,052 to $7,286,804. The capitalization of the system was chopped down from...