Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition to 50,000 copies, which will net the author another $20,000. (The French edition, now moving at a 1,000-a-month clip, has already sold around 14,000 copies...
...last week Givens & Co. had expanded into four small plants with 45 employees. The 23 different products were being shipped as far as Honolulu. Sales for 1946 were $518,566.53, net profit $35,000. And 1947 looked like a good year for babies; Dee Givens expects sales...
...secret that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. had lost money in 1946. The only question was: How much? Last week the Pennsy gave out the dismal figure: $8.5 million (v. a net profit of $49 million in 1945). Never before in its 100-year history had the biggest U.S. railroad gone into...
Partial justification for Clement's gloom was to be found in preliminary rail earnings reports for January. They showed freight revenues up a whopping 21.2% over 1946; but a drop of 39.5% in passenger revenues pulled the roads' net increase down to an unimpressive 6.5%. Obviously, the industry's problem was to jack up passenger revenues...
Captain Terry Van Ingen, who handles the net-minding duties, is now completing his third season as the Blue first-string goalie. From the defensive angle, he will be bulwarked by the starting combination of Walt Allen and Jack Calhoun, who are both former letter winners along will all but three of the fourteen regular game performers...