Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with you that Senator McCarthy should catch these Commies with a butterfly net. Why don't you start a fund to get him one? It would be terrible if he got a member of six and seven fronts by accident...
Johnny Youmans started the scoring for the Harvard freshmen when he rocketed a high shot into the upper corner of the net early in the first period. In the second period M.I.T. started to beat the Yardlings to the ball and tallied twice on quick breakthroughs...
...booming aircraft industry felt the tax bite; Consolidated Vultee's after-tax net dropped from $3,200,000 to $1,700,-ooo, Douglas' from $2,200,000 to $1,500,-ooo. Other notable declines: Libbey-Owens-Ford's nine-month net fell from $22 million to $12.8 million; R.H. Macy's yearly net fell from $6,400,000 to $5,200,-ooo (in spite of a $29 million rise in sales); Western Union's eight-month net dropped from...
Misery Has Company. Cordiner had plenty of company. Many another earnings report made no better reading than his own. Even the "growth" industries, such as chemicals, were taking a licking. Du Font's nine-month net after taxes fell 28% despite a 24% gain in sales; Dow Chemical's third-quarter net fell 25% despite a 33% sales gain. Smaller chemical companies managed to boost their nets...
Bucking the Trend. Some companies succeeded in bucking the downward trend. In spite of building cutbacks, big Johns-Manville managed to boost its third-quarter net from $5,700,000 to $6,700,000. The container industry made a notable showing: Continental Can's nine-month net rose from $10.4 million to $12.2 million, Container Corp.'s from $7,300,000 to $11.2 million. Oils, with their favorable depletion allowance for taxes, were still gaining; Atlantic Refining's nine-month net rose from $27.8 million to $31.9 million. Big price rises in newsprint enabled St. Regis Paper...