Show Net Earnings Off I Forty eight Per Cent I NEW YORK Feb Aggregate 9 net earnings of 27 domestic corporations already having reported for the full ful year 1931 amounted to a decline of per cent from the 1930 total says the Standard Statistics company of or New York in a current survey part of which follows The Te contraction in industrial profIts profits prof prof- its it equaled 53 per cent as compared with wih a decrease of per cent in rail rai earnings and only 7 per ver cent for utilities Material relative improvement improvement improve improve- ment is not expected in the current quarter although a more favorable level of results should be apparent by mid 1932 |