Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1947, Studebaker sales have jumped from $268 million to $550 million; profits rose from $9,000,000 to a peak of $27,500,000, before being nipped by the excess-profits tax. (In the first three quarters of 1952, hit by E.P.T. and the steel strike, net was $9,000,000.) Studebaker stock has risen from $18 to $41. Like everyone else, Studebaker has been pinched by metal allocations. When all controls are off and defense work diminishes, Vance expects to turn out 520,000 cars a year, 150% more than current production, and get 8% of all auto...
...language version of one movie is strictly a moneymaking device. The German market for U.S. films is booming (yearly net for Hollywood: about $5,000,000). But, explains Preminger, pictures with a German-language sound track usually outgross the U.S. products, and one of the reasons is that "the German people would rather have even mediocre pictures in their own tongue than dubbed American pictures." Dubbing German dialogue into The Moon Is Blue would have cost Preminger about $6,000. But he calculated that the cost of importing a small German cast and making the German version (about...
Miss Ryan, Secretary to the Commission, who will also attend Tuesday's hearing maintained that the Board would not give the Smoker a Licouse, because the party was almost exclusively for fresh men, all of whom are legally minors, Le under 21. The law, she held, banned net only the selling. but also the serving of beer to minors...
...Peru and Ecuador in 1928, later sold it to Pan American-Grace Airways. In 1929 he helped form Delta and started flying passengers from Dallas to Jackson, Miss. and other Southern cities. He has been rapidly expanding his routes ever since. In the last five years. Delta's net has jumped from $200,000 to $1,650,000. The deal with Chicago & Southern will give him a network stretching from Detroit, Chicago and Kansas City to New Orleans, Atlanta and Miami...
...other incentive than the right to write off most of the cost in five years instead of the usual 20. And though the arms program was responsible for the start of many of the plants, most of them, e.g., the great new steel, aluminum and chemical factories, were a net gain to the economy for civilian production...