Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planted his hybrid seed (Dixie 17) 12-15 inches apart in the rows instead of the usual 2-3 feet. He used plenty of fertilizer, which kept the leaves brilliant green until picking time. Most stalks had two big ears instead of the usual one. Farmer Simpson's net profit, after allowing for seed, fertilizer and labor: $125 on a single acre...
Comeback In Rails. The oil industry, as usual, led the prosperous parade. The major companies showed increases in net profits over the third quarter of 1947 ranging from 35% for Union Oil Co. of California (to $7,043,427) to 82% for Skelly Oil Co. (to $10.6 million...
Explosion? Haloid thought Xerography was just the thing to make the old but small company (its biggest net was $307,891 in 1941) a big one. Since June, when gossip about Xerography started, the price of Haloid's common stock has gone from 13½ to around...
Although Truman's party now rates as a slight favorite to win control of the Senate, it will be no easy trick. If the net Democratic gain is three seats--tying the parties at 48 each--the vice-president's vote will decide which party takes charge of committees and gobbles up the rest of the majority plums. Assuming that Earl Warren will be that vice-president, the Democrats must net four new seats. The battle for the Senate may well have a higher Hooper rating next Tuesday than the Presidential race, and it will probably be much pleasanter listening...
...income, such deals have meant plenty to the Disney-Kamen partnership. Disney's last financial report lumped merchandising with income from comic strips and commercial pictures, at a yearly net of $1,048,522. Kamen, who makes no financial reports for his own private company, last week reckoned the 1948 gross at $1,000,000-of which, he said, Disney would get $700,000, Kamen...