Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simca's sleek little Aronde car is considered the hottest thing on the French market today. Priced at $1,870, it is a strong competitor in popularity to the $995 Renault Baby. Simca's passenger-car output in the first six months of 1954 totaled 40,655. Net profit last year was $1,570,000. Simca's exports have climbed from 4.77% of all French cars sold abroad in 1949 to 18% last year...
...Century-TIME, June 21). This time Hecht replied to critics who say that he is biting the hands that fed him. Said he: "I got $12,000 from M-G-M for writing Viva Villa, and all the studio made on the picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid...
...first congressional election after Franklin D. Roosevelt became President, and the only off-year election in this century that gave the party in power a net gain in House seats...
...turn, had urged Mao to do what he could to curb the rampant militarism and intolerance that he had noticed in Soviet Russia, "the most heavily armed country in the world." Attlee cited this exchange as if it were proof of his standing up to the Reds, whereas the net impression of Attlee's remarks seemed to be that all of Mao's bellicose accusations against the U.S. were unfortunately true, but American misbehavior was offset somewhat by Russia's militance and bad manners...
...plants are new; the others are completely modernized. One-fourth of Ford's $1.5 billion postwar profits have been paid out in dividends. For one single year (1950) the Ford Foundation received a dividend check of $86.6 million, or $28 a share. At the end of 1953, net worth of the company had risen to an all-time high of some $1.4 billion, and profits last year were $175 million. For the first half of 1954 the Ford car was in first place in sales-1.1% ahead of Chewy...