Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much did the 113-day strike cost General Motors Corp.? Last week G.M.'s Alfred P. Sloan Jr. intoned the sad answer: an operating loss of $88.9 million. G.M. figured that $53 million would be offset by tax recoveries from the Federal Government, under the carry-back provision of the excess-profits tax. (But the amount may be reduced if G.M. shows a substantial profit for the full year.) Thus, G.M.'s net loss for the first quarter, the reddest report seen since depression days, was $36 million v. a 1945 first-quarter profit of $50 million. Nevertheless...
...Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe, told the U.S. some sad truths about the occupying U.S. soldier...
...skeletal, sad-eyed women were preparing a watery gruel for supper, composed of green weeds and splintery, hard rice husks...
...SAD SEA STORY...
Last week they were haunted by the sight of one sad wreck: the meat industry. They had put on ceilings, passed out subsidies and wage boosts, seized strike-bound plants. And what had happened? Black markets were so prevalent and so much in the open that they had almost begun to look white...