Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week pointed out, the railroad situation is even worse than in 1932. In January 1938 the railroad operating net was 32% under January 1932. Last week the first 37 roads to report March earnings showed an aggregate decrease of 80% from last year. First quarter earnings reports indicated staggering losses in almost every case. Samples...
...present outlook is very poor." With this gloomy statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...
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...usual for the U. S. to have a favorable balance of trade-i.e., to export more goods than it imports. In the first quarter of 1937. however, because of the 1936 drought there were unusually large imports of agricultural goods which gave the U. S. an unfavorable trade balance of $113,959,000. Last year there was no drought and therefore U. S. trade figures for the first quarter of 1938, released last week by the Department of Commerce, again recorded a favorable balance. What was more, the balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were...
There seems to be a divided purpose among the revolutionaries, however. Some of the members of Chase Hall believe that the university plans to quarter animals in vacant rooms...