Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...store next year, bought a site in mushrooming Houston to build another $1.3 million store. In between times, he leased three small Manhattan stores and opened his new subsidiary: Anson-Jones Co. It sells only women's dresses, at one price: $29.95. (On net sales of $19,518,654, Bonwit and Anson-Jones netted $754,866 last year...
Although Princeton's tennis team had little trouble in racking up a 9 to 0 triumph in the Varsity's net finale Saturday, Jack Barnaby's squad is still plenty happy about its season's results...
General Motors led the list with a net of $96.4 million on gross sales of $1,089,000,000, the best quarter in its history. Studebaker also hung up a record with a net of $4.2 million, up almost 162% above 1947's first quarter. Packard, which had been deep in the red in the first quarter last year because of steel shortages, totted up a $1.3 million profit, more than it made...
Kaiser-Frazer, which had lost heavily in last year's first quarter, reported a $2.3 million net for the first quarter this year (but this was less than 3% on gross sales of $79 million). For all of them, the jump in profits was due to the 35% or more increase in their gross...
...profits of the industry-with a break-even point well above that of prewar-might melt if production had to be trimmed. Chrysler, nipped by shortages and wildcat strikes, reported a gross of $336,519,790, up only 6% from last year's first quarter. But its net profit was down 30% to $14.9 million...