Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production in 1940: 66,500,000 net tons...
...Biggest moneymaker was CBS, with $31,137,823 in time sales, a net...
...Next biggest was NBC: $37,137,823 in time sales, a net...
...full, averaged only 450 passengers per trip. At an average $170 per passenger, each twelve-day cruise yielded about $76,500. Against this were operating costs of $90,000 (wages, food, fuel, general overhead at $7,500 daily), plus depreciation and interest of $28,200 ($2,350 daily). Result: net loss of $41,700 a trip. The loss to U.S. Lines was less than that. Under the Bailey-Bland (ship relief) Act of 1940, most of its losses will be paid by the Government...
...addition to the jungle outposts of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, the News also has a booming circulation in other Army outfits and among families and friends of Panama Coast Artillerymen. Subscribers, paying 25? to 50? per month, bought enough copies in April to give the News a net profit of $820 (which went into the soldiers' Athletic and Recreation Fund...