Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 13 weeks of this year, R.K.O.'s consolidated net earnings were only $439,000 v. $643,000 last year. For a while there was only one picture in production—and a huge operation like R.K.O. needs much more than that to stay in the black. In fact, R.K.O. is scraping the bottom of the barrel again, and Mr. Odium, who got it out of receivership in 1939 was out looking for a $3,000,000 working-capital loan (which he will probably get from New York City's Manufacturers Trust Co.—provided he guarantees...
...excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
...guns and tanks for MacArthur, supplies for California aircraft plants and shipbuilders. Diversion of shipping from the Atlantic ports to the Gulf means long north-south hauls of sugar, coffee, bauxite. All-rail movement of coal to New England doubles the mileage of coal cars in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Net ton-miles per freight train hour today is double the 1922 figure, up 20% over 1939. Locomotives, giving 160% more service than they did in the last war, are keeping heavier trains running on schedule...
...first four months-though their wage increases were already in effect, their compensating freight-rate boost not until March 18. Combined profits of all Class I roads were $149,000,000-almost double last year's $76,299,000. In April, when last year's net was cut by the coal strike, the gain was even more dramatic: $57,900,000 for 1942, against...