Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual reports that came out last week, "record-breaking sales" was a welcome cliché. Though high taxes often kept profits from also breaking records, the 1953 net earnings of most firms reporting last week topped 1952 levels by handsome margins...
Steel. U.S. Steel, operating at 98.4% of capacity, upped its gross 23% to a new mark of $3.9 billion and its net 54% to $222 million. Crucible Steel's sales also reached an alltime high, but profits slipped 5% to $5.1 million...
...Standard Oil of Ohio struck it rich with a record gross, $336 million, and a 20% higher net, $21.2 million. Ohio Oil's sales rose 8%, its earnings 11% to $43.5 million...
...they were less interested in long-range plans than in the quick resumption of dividend payments that would increase the market value of their common stock. To the board's distress, the stock sank lower under Harris, from 14½ in January 1953 to a year later, though net operating income rose 81% during 1953, from...
...fruit of Iselin's door knocking campaign in Washington, the Navy became interested in woods Hole. The Navy wanted to know how to forecast the waves on a beach. For this knowledge they turned to the contracts have turned the institute into a year round operation and cast a net of security over some of the research...