Word: net
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago. Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co., operating at about 85% of capacity in the first quarter v. 50% a year ago, said that its earnings are "much better" than 1954. Parke, Davis announced that first-quarter sales in 1955 were 12% ahead of last year and net profit showed a "substantial increase." Raybestos-Manhattan said that its first-quarter earnings will be at least 10% ahead of last year...
Though he did, not go on the southern trip, Ham Gravem, the varsity's number one last year, will probably begin at four Saturday. A left-hander, he is very aggressive, with a good net game and a powerful forehand. Maynard Canfield, who won an important match against Navy at number four, will play at five. He played at nine last year, and employs steady ground strokes and a good twisting serve...
...last week's meeting of Toronto's National Sales Executive Club. Rea's company, a 98.7% Canadian-owned firm, is one of Canada's fastest-growing oil and gas companies. Its 1954 report showed a $2,000,000 sales increase and a 20% rise in net profit over...
Armstrong Circle Theater offered a grim little farce called TV or Net TV. The plot line: when a group of suburban husbands feel abused because their wives and children neglect them to watch television, they cunningly arrange to botch the TV reception; but a few nights of listening to the incessant yammering of their TV-free families drive them to restore the status quo. Somewhere in this vicious circle the televiewer himself may well have felt tempted to risk the full fury of a family on the loose in preference to the typically bad TV farce represented...
...Fulbright began to question Baruch about profits from short selling, he showed how little homework he had done for his own investigation. Baruch said that present restrictions on short selling to drive the market down are a good thing. He also pointed out that selling short often means low net returns for the risk involved because the speculator pays full income tax on any gain from short sales, whether he holds the stock a day or a year. Commented Chairman Fulbright: "Well, that certainly is news to me . . . That is quite a discouragement to short selling...