Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campaign. Though the new hotel's fame quickly spread, it has never been a big moneymaker. In its first ten years it lost $12 million. Last year, the Waldorf managed to net $657,981 on a gross of $18.7 million. But the profit percentage is slipping. For the first eight months of 1949, the Waldorf grossed $11.8 million, netted only...
...Blaik has had to replace his defensive team from tackle to tackle. His replacements have been more than adequate, limiting Michigan to less than 100 yards rushing and the first three Army opponents to a total of 288 yards. Meanwhile the offensive unit piled up 666 net yards rushing and another 382 yards through the air. Opponents got 176 yards by forward passing...
Before a joint committee looking into the whole field of U.S. investments, appeared Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). How did he think U.S. capital could be lured abroad? The net of Oilman Holman's forthright reply was that the real job could not be done by the U.S.; it had to be done by other nations. Before U.S. investors would loosen up, he said, high taxes, foreign currency restrictions and other controls would have to be eased...
Cornell backs carried the ball on the ground 492 times and gained a net 2296 yards, or an average 4.6 yards per try. Opponents averaged but 2.8. This remarkable record was compiled against such teams as Army, Navy, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania...
...holdings, but in actual practice the taxpayer has been hit with some fantastic losses. Because of a potato surplus in 1947, the Department of Agriculture last year restricted the acreage. But farmers simply planted rows closer together and presented CCC with a bumper crop of 446 million bushels. Net loss to date: $203 million. In the coming potato season Congress may get tougher and tell farmers, not how many acres they can plant, but how many bushels they can grow...