Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after American Iron & Steel Institute let go these whopping statistics, the Wall Street Journal added up the net income after taxes of 28 U.S. steel companies: for the first six months of 1943, twelve were up from last year, 16 were down; all 28 together earned 4% less than they...
...Reedsport, Ore., Mrs. Paul Bernhardt and Mrs. Charles Henderson set out to do a little seining, encountered a young cougar along the way, cast their net, brought him back alive...
...trend in railroad earnings showed up in the June figures. For the first time since 1938, net income of Class I railroads failed to show an increase in June over the" year earlier. Though operating revenues of $747 million were the best for any June in railroad history, and exceeded last June's by $124 million, the net profit of $71 million was down $7 million. One reason: the railroad tax bill for the month was $169 million-more than twice as much as their profits, 52.7% more than they paid last June...
...already paid out on contracts, and negotiated $2,031,426,000 in price reductions for future deliveries on existing contracts -made possible in most cases by industry's improved manufacturing methods, savings by mass production, more accurate cost schedules on once-unfamiliar war material. Actually, the net savings to the Government are far less than these amounts. If the boards did not exist, the Government would still have collected something approaching 80% of the same sums but in the form of excess-profits taxes. There are 14,682 contracts left...
...Seagrave slept without a mosquito net. He has not been free of malaria since. When the bombing of Rangoon began and the American women and children were ordered out of Burma, Mrs. Seagrave reluctantly agreed to go (she had malaria...