Word: netting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrials paid a total of $724,900,000 to investors during that year. Du Pont, Hercules Powder Co., Remington Arms, Savage, and Winchester Arms all got big Allied orders for munitions. U. S. Steel converted a deficit of $1,700,000 before common dividends in 1914 to a net for common of $50,600,000 in 1915 and $246,300,000 in 1916. Copper went to 28? a pound in 1916 (it was stabilized in the fall of 1917 at 23?). The automobile industry which in 1913 put out 461,500 passenger cars in 1916 built...
...after her death the Tribune began to show losses instead of profits. In 1928 its net profit had been $174,953.14, its surplus $1,794,314.87, and it had paid $186,000 in dividends. By 1934 its net loss was $75,995.07, it had a deficit of $152,924.87, and dividends had stopped...
Stan Shaw's sponsors now number eleven, have been as many as 14. They and the studio net him between $7,500 and $10,000 a year. In his first year he broadcast ten chop-licking plugs a night to the lunchroom circuit for doughnuts and buns made by Fischer Baking Co. Sample "It's permissible to dunk Fischer's doughnuts up to the second knuckle." In that year Fischer's opened two new branches, added 19 new delivery routes. His first sponsor, in 1935, was Krueger Brewing Co. In 25 days, with no other advertising...
...platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution? In reply, Senator Hatch patiently reminded people (and the President) that all such questions are already answered by Civil Service regulations, whose language he used verbatim in his act (Attorney-General Murphy last week informally opined it was Constitutional). Net answer: Federal employes may participate in politics except as officers of political organizations or delegates to conventions-which doesn't leave much...
...Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward to the day when his pageant would have its own permanent outdoor theatre...