TABLE 3. Net sales and profits before and after taxes, 1936-39 average, and 1944, 1,743 large industrial corporations, by major and minor industry groups-Continued Renegotiation reserves have been deducted from sales as well as profits in every case where the amount set aside was shown as a current liability, or was known to be included 3 Not computed because of an average deficit in the base years 1936-39. Includes highway and pipe-line transportation, services incidental to transportation, and radio broadcasting. ' Represents food chains only. Since independent food stores are, for the most part, small and unincorporated, their profits are not reported in the usual sources. NOTE.-Profits are shown before minority interest and contingency reserves which are deemed to be nonallowable appropriations from current income. Amounts disallowed for |