Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turning to corporation net profits. Nathan found that they have increased 50% over the war peak of 1943, and are approaching $15 billion for 1946 (according to Department of Commerce figures). This compares with average annual profits for 1936-39 of a little less than $4 billion. Return on net worth in the last quarter of 1946, Nathan estimated, will be 9.1%; this compares with a net return...
...enough to increase their annual revenues by $1 billion.' Since then the estimates of next year's freight traffic had increased. Now the railroads expect to gross the $1 billion with the 17.6% increase. If traffic holds up, and costs remain the same, the railroads expect to net $250,000,000 in 1947. (Without the increase, they estimated that they would lose...
...reasons why T.W.A. needed the cash were dismally plain. In the third quarter, T.W.A. reported last week, it had lost $3,235,491, bringing the net loss for the first nine months to $4,846,450. The third quarter losses, said President Jack Frye, were caused by CAA's grounding of Constellations. And the pilots' strike was likely to make the fourth quarter the worst of the year...
Shapely, who instituted the first graduate School of Astronomy in this country shortly after taking office, ahs watched his trust grow from a small Summer House Hill station and a run-down observation post at Arequipa, Peru, to a vast net-work of the most modernly equipped outposts, situated for complete, continuous observation of all the heavens, and planned to cover the many divergent phases of modern Astronomy...
...many, praised to the skies by a few, actually read in its entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...