Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast snapback scored by many a recession-hit corporation. In the last three months of 1958. Ford earned $111.9 million or $2.05 a share, the second-best fourth quarter in its history (best: 1955). This wiped out the nine-month loss, gave to the company a respectable net for the year of $95.7 million or $1.75 a share...
...nation's steelmakers it was the best week in years. Output was up to a scheduled 2,212,000 net tons (from 2,056,000 the week before and 1,459,000 a year ago), and orders were piling in so fast that many companies had to start allocating steel and reopen marginal facilities. U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough reported that orders were being received at a faster rate than at any time in 1958, as Big Steel fired up seven of 14 open-hearth furnaces idled at its Pennsylvania Homestead Works last March. Equally cheering, Blough...
...than others to climb back to pre-recession levels. Yet even in oils, still beset by political troubles abroad and price problems at home, the fourth-quarter pickup was strong enough to cause Chairman K. S. Adams of Phillips Petroleum to predict: "If present trends continue, both gross and net income in 1959 will be the highest in the company's history...
...turned Armour & Co.'s pharmaceutical division into a regular customer by showing it how to reduce costs $100,000 annually by shipping drugs air freight to a five-state area. For many of the same reasons, Burroughs Corp. has started shipping computers by air and figured a $245.43 net gain on shipping a 1,640-lb. computer from Detroit to Los Angeles...
...having lunch he had gone right into her cubicle and learned her name from her books. She had small handwriting. And then he had left everything just as it was, and never said anything. Sometimes he'd stop working and just watch the back of her hair net.) This was too good to miss now, having her see him right there getting a shoeshine...