Word: out-of-pocket
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...buying for Lend-Lease) announced the signing of OPA-and OPM-approved contracts with three small high-cost Michigan mines (Quincy, Isle Royale, Copper Range) for all the copper they could dig-perhaps 20,000 tons a year. The deal: the mines were to get it above their "out-of-pocket" mine costs, about 15? or 16? (depending on the producer). The U.S. will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle Dome property in Arizona...
...available without any charge. . . . Individuals in the industry are contributing . . . their time and talents to assist in the production of Training Films without cost to the Government. The only expenditures involved in the production of these films is money actually paid out for labor, film and other 'out-of-pocket' expenses...
...whole the U. S. railroads failed to earn their fixed charges last year by $35,000,000. No less than 30 failed to earn their out-of-pocket operating expenses. Of course, many a road like Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Atchison, Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian and Bangor & Aroostook earned not only fixed charges but dividends besides, but the great majority were deep in the red. A wage increase of 5% will take effect in April, topping two preceding raises of 2½% since last July. Traffic is not expanding. And while Jesse Jones might assure the carriers, as he did last week...