Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recital of unusual achievements. U.S. Steel upped its sales to a new high of $1.5 billion. But its $89 million sales increase was more than offset by higher costs. After paying taxes of $74 million (v. $79.5 million in 1943), the Corporation's nine months' net was $49.3 million against...
Many consumer-goods industries also saw profits shrink from last year. Textile-company earnings were down 12%; food companies, unable to outfoot rising costs, were down 5%. General Foods reported a slightly lower net on record sales of $209 million. Their $28 million increase in sales was just matched by a $28 million increase in the cost of sales...
...more money than they can lift, suddenly began to worry. They predicted traffic declines ranging from 15 to 25% after V-E day cutbacks in military orders. Alarmed at this prospect, and at the inroads that higher costs of materials and wages have made in this year's net (estimated at $650 million v. $874 million in 1943); the carriers asked the ICC to increase rates by an average of 4-7%-One argument: at war's end the railroads expect to spend $1.7 billion for new equipment, but owing to higher prices will get less for their...
...stuff had gone flashing through those frail wooden walls like buckshot through a berry crate. Some of it had even sliced through the walls and partitions and come out on the far side. The mosquito net above my bed was ripped in a dozen places...
Listeners to WOR and the Mutual Net work last week heard a marine's-eye view of the fight for Peleliu. The narrator was shy, wry Sergeant Alvin Flanagan, Ma rine combat correspondent and ex-WOR (Manhattan) announcer. Microphone in hand, FM-walkie-talkie strapped to his back, Flanagan landed on the beach at Peleliu with the ist Marine Division, describing the scene as he went. His account went to an associate aboard a Marine transport offshore, where it was recorded for last week's broadcast...