Word: offsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months Wall Street has been talking about a "profit squeeze" as if it were an indisputable fact for industry as a whole. Last week, as a flood of first-quarter-earnings reports poured out, the profit squeeze proved to be more fiction than fact. The firms that could not offset rising costs with increased business were far outnumbered by those that showed profits still on the upgrade. The profit squeeze did show up in the sense that earnings often failed to keep pace with the increase in sales. But overall corporate profits for 1957's first quarter were expected...
Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who has been sniping away for months at the foreign operations of U.S. oil firms, last week developed a new line of attack. He asked the Administration to consider imposing a tariff on oil imports, to offset "the threat to our national security" resulting from the loss of tax revenues from overseas oil operations. What Senator O'Mahoney meant in particular was the Arabian American Oil Co.'s tax arrangement with Saudi Arabia, through which Aramco last year avoided paying a penny of corporate income...
Cornell has a vast depth advantage in both the dashes and the broad jump which threatens to offset the Crimson strength in the distance and weight events. Penn offers little more than two fourteen-foot pole vaulters, Carl Shine, the Heptagonal shot put champion, and Andy Wohlgemuth, who tied John de-Kiewiet for the Heptagonal high jump championship...
Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic Governor Robert B. (for Baumle) Meyner, 48, since he married Adlai Stevenson's distant relative by marriage, Helen Stevenson, last January. But Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner...
Armed with Saud money, Hussein hurried back to Jordan, began lining up Bedouin sheiks to sway the Bedouin troops, who comprise nearly half the Jordanian army. He gave them gifts, obtained jobs for sheiks' sons. To offset the proCommunists' control of the street mobs, he approached leaders of the fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment...