Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though unlikely, that the Ford family drew down enough dividends to hide the real profit figure. As the rich go, the Fords can hardly be called spenders. Wages and other operating expenses were higher last year than in 1934, but the tremendous rise in volume should have more than offset increased costs. Henry Ford's explanation, were he ever to give one, would probably be that he is not interested in profits, only in cars...
Since Publisher Knox suffered a moral defeat in Illinois, the real victor of the primary season was Governor Landon, whose half-defeat in California was offset by the margin of his victory in New Jersey. Last week as Landonites went about preening themselves, Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley mounted a platform in Grand Rapids, Mich, to crack their candidate as follows...
...most U. S. businessmen would have only academic interest in devaluation of the franc unless Britain deliberately pushed down the pound, perhaps leading in turn to another cut in the dollar. Consensus was that no such cycle would follow, that in world conditions recovery in France would more than offset the temporary confusion caused by a franc cut loose from gold...
...presumably neutral view from Yale, which has neither farms nor oilwells, was injected by Lester Clyde Lichty and E. J. Ziurys: "The fuel economies accompanying the increased compression ratios made possible by the use of alcohol are offset, both theoretically and from engine test, by its lower heating value per pound of fuel. ... It requires about 1.67 lb. of alcohol to liberate the same amount of energy as . . . by one pound of gasoline...
...loaned to a few U. S. hospitals for the heat treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, April 22, et ante). For proof that her test subjects develop pure fevers and nothing else, Dr. Fishberg usually heats them until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset the specific effects of fever in sick patients, Dr. Fishberg brings her test subjects back to normal by giving them a weak solution of common salt to drink and causing them to inhale a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide...