Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortly, and have already signed up a 700-acre tract at Tipitapa for their second crop. They will need two more tractors, two more jeeps, plenty of equipment and supplies. But they expect to have no trouble financing these expanded operations: their 170-bale first crop brought them a net profit of nearly...
...Joyce plowed profits (which hit $8,600,000 last year) back into the company, has paid dividends continuously since 1933. This week, son Dwight had more good news for stockholders. In the first quarter of its fiscal year, said he, Glidden's sales hit $57.1 million for a net of $2,600,000. Says Dwight: "Right now, both our paint and food divisions are going full blast ... If times are bad and paint becomes a luxury to some people, they still have to eat, and they will be more inclined to eat margarine than butter...
Lusty Giant. Last year the combined net operating income of the 16 big trunk lines was $51 million, a 50% gain over the 1949 figure. Profits are headed still higher this year (TIME, Feb. 12). Fatal accidents have dropped from 28 per 100 million passenger-miles in 1930 to 1.3 in 1949 (v. .08 for railroads and 2.0 for autos and taxis). Air travel accounted for 2.9% of intercity passengers carried by public carriers in the U.S. in 1950 (v. 37.1% for trains and 60% for buses) and 11.5% of the total passenger-miles racked up. But, said CAB Vice...
...Mack director and a rough & ready executive who had put one other wobbly company back on its feet. Last week President Bransome proved that the name Mack was again synonymous with strength. In 1950, he reported, Mack's sales jumped nearly 50% to $123 million, its net to $1.3 million...
...movie gives the customers plenty of violence; Hero Lancaster's brawls net him a badly mauled head, a knife gash in the side, a bullet in the arm. But much of the story is fitted neatly into a weeks-long cattle roundup over vast stretches of Technicolored country. In the spirit of 1948's excellent Red River, if not with the same scope and skill, Vengeance Valley works diligently to show what a big job a roundup is, and just how the cowpunchers...