Word: soares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this adds up to a. tidy, theoretical 400,000-bbl. surplus over domestic demand under rationing. But: Eastern fuel-oil stocks must be built up (in winter demand goes well above the annual average) and military demands will probably soar. The difference between rationed consumer demand and maximum foreseeable deliveries is only a few insignificant tanker loads...
...Government has already allowed wages in special cases in the building trades to soar far above the limits set by the "Little Steel" formula-the line which the Administration is trying to hold in its war against inflation...
...variety of the U.S. diet, rationing was bound to be more complicated in the U.S. than in Britain. Actually it is working a lot better than the gloomy grocery trade had expected. But there will be casualties. Despite the fact that national income is expected to soar to $140 billion from $120 billion, the grocers' gross this year will be down by 40-50%; his profit margin may be shaved from about 5% to about 3% of sales, due to increases in costs. As many as 50,000 small marginal grocers may go out of business entirely...
...Profits and the Losses. The court decisions raised hob. Hardest hit were junior bondholders and stockholders in receivership railroads. They have watched railroad profits soar skyward for months, had become convinced they could get the ICC-sponsored reorganization plans changed enough to make their holdings highly profitable. When the Court said no, receivership rail stocks on the New York Stock Exchange nose-dived 50 to 80%. Prices for junior bonds jumped the tracks. Western Pacific preferred stock flopped from $3 to 70?; Rock Island 7% preferred from...
...money on absenteeism may be even more serious this year. For in 1942 through using up accumulated inventories there was still plenty of goods for the U.S. worker to work to obtain. But in 1943 there will be increasing shortages. This means that no matter how high money wages soar, real wages (i.e., what dollars can buy) are going to fall. And the great problem is how to make...