Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pundits could detect little, if any, psychological radiation. The vote was almost a standoff: Taft, 64,619; Ike, 64,004. Ike carried 38 counties, Taft 30. Taft's power in the rural areas, enhanced by his speeches for farm price supports and against universal military training, was largely offset by Ike's strength in the cities...
...Association: the increase will drive "many newspapers from the black into the red." OPS Boss Ellis Arnall, even more gloomy, said: "[It] will drive many small . . . newspapers out of business." Some publishers feared that they would have to raise their advertising and subscription rates as the only way to offset the big new bite, which will add an estimated $50 million a year to their publishing costs...
...capital, which Foremost can use for further expansion. But Wall Streeters suspected that a very important reason for the merger was similar to that which had encouraged Floyd Odium to consider buying money-losing Kaiser-Frazer Corp.: the advantage of taking over a company's past losses to offset the buying company's excess profits taxes (see Taxes). ACF-Brill, with $25 million in invested-capital tax base and some fat losses (a three-year total of $5,569,583) to its credit, would be a fine tax hedge for Foremost, a growth company now beginning to feel...
...deal had looked attractive. There were reasons why it should: Convair could use K-F's big Willow Run plant to make aircraft; in peacetime, it could make automobiles; moreover, Kaiser-Frazer had piled up some $49 million in losses which the merged companies could use as an offset against Convair's excess-profits taxes...
...declared that perhaps the greatest hope for this program lies in a rise of productivity in the South to offset the Eigher wage rates in New England...