Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these arrangements, firm and tentative, would at best net India $700 million. But to pay for the imported steel and equipment needed to complete even the hard core of the plan, India must have still another $500 million to $600 million in foreign aid within the next 18 months. Nehru makes no secret of the fact that he is looking to the U.S. to fill this...
WESTINGHOUSE COMEBACK is pushing 1957 sales near $2 billion (previous record: $1.6 billion in 1954). Net per common share will hit nearly $4 v. 10? in strike-troubled 1956. Consumer products sales are up, and defense contracts (Bomarc missile guidance systems, Polaris missile launchers) were unhurt by recent cutbacks...
...ROAD PLANNERS have already pumped $1.4 billion into contracts for building 41,000-mile federal highway net. Another $924 million is set aside for roads still in the blueprint stage, and $932 million has gone into preliminary engineering and buying rights...
...every U.S. businessman, to say nothing of his stockholders, is: how will profits be in the near future? Very often the answer is gloomy. Executives mutter about the "profit squeeze" and "profitless prosperity," point ominously to figures showing that while sales increased more than 100% in ten years, net profits declined from 5.2% of sales in 1947 to only 3.5% last year. But the figures are misleading. The so-called profit squeeze is more apparent than real, simply because companies are spending so much money on replacement and expansion programs that have cost $264 billion since World...
...standard method of gauging a company's health is to inspect its net profit-its earnings after all costs, taxes, depreciation and interest charges are deducted. In turn, net profit is split into dividends and cash retained for investment. Before World War II, when expansion was comparatively small, such a breakdown gave an accurate idea of profits. But today, because of expansion, many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, think that it gives a misleading impression...