Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most optimistic report came from the biggest company of all: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. "With no letup in activity," announced A.T.& T. President Frederick R. Kappel, the Bell System's second-quarter operating revenues totaled $1.6 billion, with a net income of $208.5 million, both about 10% better than last year and both new records for the quarter. Parent A.T.&.T.'s net alone climbed to a record $167.9 million v. $153.2 million in 1956, might soon be even higher. Said Kappel: "At present, the rate of earnings on the capital invested in the Bell System...
...names of nine top L.A. businessmen on a piece of Times stationery. If each of these men would sign a bank loan for $1,500, Chandler said, he would sign for the balance. Thus was born the company which Donald Douglas engineered into the world's biggest (1956 net sales: $1,073,515,000) airframe company; Douglas set off a chain reaction that made Los Angeles the center of a $2.5 billion aircraft industry (Lockheed, North American, Northrop), as well as the base for the newer missiles and electronics industries...
...First National City Bank of New York increased its loans by 11% to $3.9 billion and, together with its trust affiliate, City Bank Farmers Trust, pushed net earnings up 12.5% to $28.7 million in the first half...
...Chase Manhattan Bank boosted loans nearly 9% to $3.8 billion, and saw net earnings soar 17% to $26.7 million...
...disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape the U.S. net...