Word: nettings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harry Hoxsey set up a cancer clinic in a small building in Dallas and got a naturopath's license. Despite several lawsuits, he was soon doing well enough to move to plusher quarters. He hired two assistants (neither of them M.D.s), within ten years boosted his annual net income to $100,000. On the side he plunged into oil and real estate, bought a 588-acre ranch...
...would build more than 3,000,000 cars and trucks this year. Said Curtice: "No depression is in my vision." Last week, when G.M. issued its report for the second quarter, the figures proved Curtice a good prophet. Sales of $2.6 billion were 7% below record 1953, but net earnings, helped by the death of the excess-profits tax, reached $236 million, up 47% from a year ago and second highest in company history. Sales of cars and trucks from G.M.'s U.S. plants in the first half of the year totaled 1,754,978, well on the road...
...steel industry, which has been operating at scarcely better than two-thirds of capacity, combined earnings of 30 companies were just 14% under a year ago. U.S. Steel's second-quarter net was down 11.9% to $49 million. But Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless predicted that demand for steel would pick up late this month or in September. Chicago's Inland Steel, which concentrates on basic steels rather than high-cost alloys, announced alltime highs in second-quarter production (102.6% of capacity) and first-half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits...
Sales & Profits. Despite oil production cutbacks, major petroleum companies were still able to report higher profits. For the first six months, the Texas Co. showed a record net of $97 million, Jersey Standard reported earnings up to $4.84 a share from $4.42 a year ago, and Phillips Petroleum's sales and earnings were ahead of 1953. In the fast-stepping electrical and electronics industries, Westinghouse Electric's second-quarter net was up 2% to a record $19 million, and Radio Corp. of America reported new record earnings...
...helicopter, first flown a fortnight ago. Developing a net 260 h.p., it can carry four passengers. Estimated price...