Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squashed a 9% cigaret price boost asked by big American Tobacco last December. Reasons: 1) tobacco-company profits last year were 21% of invested capital v. 17% in 1936-39; 2) current cigaret sales are 20% above 1941; 3) although production costs have risen 10-16%, they should be offset by greater volume...
...encourage oil production in the Eastern States-and thus get more oil where it is needed most-OPA lifted Pennsylvania grade crude-oil prices 25? a bbl. (about 10%). To offset higher transportation costs (by rail instead of tanker), OPA also approved a ½?-a-gallon boost in Atlantic coast retail gasoline prices (except in Florida and Georgia...
...Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
Last November there were 160 students concentrating in Engineering Sciences, an advance of 50 from the previous November as a result of the "directly useful" nature of the work. Increases in the enrollment in elementary courses have been offset by very obvious decreases in the more advanced courses, especially in the graduate school. Army and Navy officers studying electronics and cathode ray tubes and the sanitation of defense areas are an added burden to the Physics and Engineering Departments, both their teaching staffs and lecture facilities...
What advantages the Crimson might ordinarily be expected to gain from meeting the foe on home ice will be offset by the changes which Coach John Chase has been forced to make in his forward lines. Two of his three trios will be playing as a unit for the first time tonight, and this fact should cut down their operating efficiency...