Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poujade was quite willing to accept ejection of his men by the Assembly if he could capitalize on it in the country. Communists were delighted to proclaim a crusade against the "reactionary, fascist right," and hoping to tar the moderate right of Antoine Pinay with the Poujade brush. The net result of the brawling was to make the democratic parties of the center seem helpless and ineffectual...
...puritan nonetheless. These two kill their principles to make a Roman honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate, however, is a Roman prostitute called Dorotea-an "enigmatic goddess," whose "hair quivered slightly at the roots...
Aside from the scattered clouds over Detroit, the U.S. economic climate continued fair and warm. The steel industry clipped along at 99.1% of rated capacity in January, turned out 10.8 million net tons of steel for an alltime record. Incoming orders still outpaced production, were backed up more than three months at some mills. As businessmen continued to expand, business loans increased $44 million to a total of $25.6 billion in the week ending...
...automakers, the recent cutbacks did not prevent them from turning out their 1,000,000th new motor vehicle of 1956 this week, only three days behind the 1955 pace. At Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced that in Chrysler's 1955 comeback net sales totaled $3.5 billion, 67% better than 1954, with earnings of $100 million, more than 400% better than 1954. Said Colbert: "1956 will be highly competitive, but we believe it will be a good market...
Financial Vice President John P. Rutherfurd, once a McGinnis man, said that McGinnis had drawn much too pretty a picture of the railroad's net earnings. For the first eleven months of 1955, McGinnis had announced earnings of $9,275,000. Rutherfurd drastically cut the figure. His total for the full year came to only $4,246,000, or 61? a share after deductions for sinking funds and preferred dividends. This was less than half 1954's $9,090,000 ($5.18 a share...