Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, who lost prestige but none of a champion's prerogatives in 15 rounds against Jersey Joe Walcott, signed to defend his heavyweight title in June for the "last time," for 40% of everything (net receipts, movie, radio and television rights). Jersey Joe, the man he had to beat, was still sparring with the promoters: he wanted at least 25%, had been offered only 20%. Probable scene of the big fight: Yankee Stadium...
...with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
...worst defeats of the campaign, as the tired Crimson went down, 13 to 6 and 10 to 3, on successive nights. In the opener, the offense couldn't seem to get organized, despite two tallies each by Dave Key and Myles Huntington, and only the stalwart net defense of Bill Yetman kept the score from running into three figures. The next night Yetman was forced to take the ice with an injury, while the team again failed to find itself offensively...
...prevented record companies from signing a new contract which would pay royalties to a union-administered fund-but the record companies had obligingly recorded a year's supply under the old contract. All those phonograph records to be doled out over the bleak months ahead, he thought, would net his union around...
...such prestige pictures as Caesar and Cleopatra. But they had not suspected, as the books showed, that the loss in 1944 through 1946 had been a thumping ?2.2 million. The company's other interests had pulled it into the black in 1944 and 1945, but last year the net loss...