Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest was back in the black, and last year its net profits of $517,000 were the highest ever. After the war, Hunter expects to stretch Northwest's routes all the way to the Orient by way of Alaska, to which he is already flying for the Army. To make this trans-pacific route financially feasible, Hunter had to have the Milwaukee-New York link. But he made it plain last week that he wants no help for this big job. He brushed off the suggestion of CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue that Northwest merge with Pennsylvania-Central Airlines, presumably...
Forty-five minutes after he had plunged from the carrier, Lieut. Ladwig was pulled aboard a destroyer-after three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...
...slow and inconclusive on the ground. In some places the Germans attacked, won back a few mountain positions from the Fifth Army; in others the Allies attacked, won a few hundred yards from the Germans. The net result was still deadlock in months-old positions...
...Britain and the U.S. expect to charge, cheered when rigid fare-fixing and quotas went by the board). But the U.S. is in favor of minimum fares (to prevent over-subsidization), which the airlines themselves are conferring about but which will not be a part of the pact. The net effect of the conference was: the U.S. would be free to put to best use its vast store of know-how, and its planes...
...prospects. It showed what can happen to war babies when war orders drop. Because of cutbacks and previous overbuying by customers, demand for self-locking nuts fell sharply during the second half of 1944. The company that earned $1,084,381 in the first six months sustained a net loss during August, September and October of $200,000. But company officials believe a profit can still be shown on the full year...