Word: netting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington 4,600 delegates to the National Association of Postmasters' Convention, having congratulated Postmaster General Farley for showing a"net operating surplus of $10,000,000" for the last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
Last week she shocked San Francisco by losing her chemise: filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, swore her assets were $8,067, liabilities $64,631. Trouble was, she said, that her gross was big and her net was little. As an example she offered her 1937 earnings statement: gross $127,183; net...
During the summer of 1938, earnest, acidulous President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers took a look at his industry. He saw that its 560 firms had a net loss of more than $10,000,000 in the preceding six months and he grew sarcastic. Soon the trade received from President Besse a three-page printed blast against price cutting and reckless competition...
...recovery caused 70% of instalment-buying families to increase their instalment indebtedness. The net increase amounted to $407,000,000 or $580,000,000 when single persons and relief families were included...
...Before figuring its net it has duly paid the city $1,181,000 in lieu of taxes...