Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward J. Engel, president of Santa Fe, reported net railway operating income for last year at $83 million as against $40 million in 1941. During the year the road slashed over $18 million from its 1941 debt of $323 million...
...York Central reported last year's net profit at $49 million, or nearly six times as much as the road earned during the entire decade of 1932-41. It reduced its 1941 debt of $969 million (including lessor companies) by $51 million, bringing total retirements for the decade to $191 million...
...only took two and half minutes to convince the sextet that it was still up against a fighting team. In spite of a goal by Marc Beebe assisted by Everts, and a replay of the Acker to Harding to net system, the Huskies played fast, hard hockey, tying up the game in the last four minutes...
...spectacular sellout, is expected to net at least $5,000. Dressed in grey coats, each with a jet black carnation in his buttonhole, Ellington's 15 musicians played many such Ellington favorites as the Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, Rockin' in Rhythm. Duke affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product...
...course "bring the 10? price right up to the suburbs of New York City." Moreover, its advertisers will have to pay 10% more for space, reduce their space requirements on the average 10-15%. These changes, the News was quick to point out, will not result in "any perceptible net profits": excess-profits taxes plus higher normal rates on corporate income will take care of that...