Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...
...usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...
...which set the limit on fixed charges at what the railroads could earn in lean years. But these plans now got the green light at the close of a year in which rail income hit an alltime high. Estimated C. & N. W. gross for 1943 is $165 million, net $25 million...
...Haven had its best-in-history financial year, with gross estimated at $180 million, net $34 million. This was 50% greater than in 1929, when the common stock sold for $108 ½. Last week the New York Stock Exchange took New Haven stock off the board; last transaction...
...three important preliminary points, the Oil Czar and the oilmen agreed, 1) The U.S. is drawing on its own reserves so heavily that it is on the verge of becoming a net importer of oil.* 2) As Ickes put it in the American: "The capital of the oil empire is on the move to the Middle East." 3) The U.S. had better get into that empire in a big way, and fast. To do so the U.S. must find its postwar oil policy right...