Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...molders is Chicago Molded Products Corp., operated by the four Bachner Brothers. Sons of a Chicago watchmaker, the Brothers Bachner started as diemakers in a dingy Chicago shop in 1919, organized their own plastics company in 1924 to do their own molding on their own dies. That year their net sales were $10,000. Last year their net sales were...
Promotion. Like all world's fairs, this is a business venture, a supposedly self-supporting promotion stunt. Few such stunts actually break even. The Century of Progress did manage to net $702,171, but that was a peewee return on the $47,000,000 investment (of which $10,000,000 was put up by the fair's promoters and recovered in full). The real return was an estimated $700,000,000 in extra business it drew to Chicago...
...Last week Coca-Cola reported 1938 net profit...
...though Dennison Manufacturing Co. has had no labor trouble for 40 years, its stockholders in recent years have been less contented. With an average annual net since 1929 of only $200,710, compared with $1,072,844 for the previous ten years, the company has run up arrears of $1,275,291.50 ($49.75 a share) on its preferred stock...
Pointing out that both indicted directors and the vice president had resigned, McKesson & Robbins' Trustee William J. Wardall declared: "The indictment . . . should in no way impair the continued public confidence in the administration of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose business is progressing soundly towards full recovery." McKesson's net sales for February, said Trustee Wardall, were up nearly three quarters of one per cent from February...