Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rush to the side of labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations when the prospects were promising. He refused to use the Taft-Hartley law. The net result was a seven-month cataclysm in U.S. life, which already has had these measurable effects: ¶ The nation has lost 19 million tons of steel, has been forced to shut down ammunition plants, airplane assembly lines and parts plants, will suffer a delay in schedules for at least one year...
...accounting filed in Manhattan's Surrogate Court listed the net estate left by the late Mammy Singer Al Jolson at $2,366,844. Among the bequests: trust funds of $1,000,000 for Erie, his fourth wife; $500,000 each to their adopted children Asa and Alicia; and $10,000 for Ethel Delmar, his second wife...
...first big batch of second-quarter earnings came out last week, it looked as if overall quarterly results would echo an old refrain: sales up, profits down. Of the first 130 companies to report, most could point to a slightly higher gross, but the average net was down 7% from 1951. Nevertheless, the stock market found no cause for alarm in the reports. The Dow-Jones industrial average, having forged ahead to a new 22-year high a week before, edged still higher to 279.26 before easing...
...grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan of $4,500. In 1931, he lost $32,000. Next year he switched to making scrapers, bulldozers, cranes, etc., and made his deal with God. His 1932 net: $52,000. LeTourneau, who comes from a deeply religious Plymouth Brethren family and whose two sisters were missionaries to China, turned over his stock interest to endow the LeTourneau Foundation, now worth $16 million and one of the biggest religious foundations...
...will not try to buck the auto market; instead, he will use the plant space for his booming defense business. And for all the diversification, O'Neil plans to keep General Tire in the business it knows best. Of its $171 million sales in 1951 (and $7 million net), 85% came from rubber...