The old-fashioned idea of putting in a manager and bringing in third-rate touring companies is a dead loss.
It is not, so to speak, a dead loss to the local authority to have units moving into empty barracks in its area.
Many ships are saved for the repair yards to-day which in earlier days would have been a dead loss to us.
Any hill farmer will tell you that he might have very good years, but that one year in five is considered a dead loss.
It has cost the country £5,000,000, which has been a dead loss.
That was a dead loss to the farmer of a life's work.
Today in many mines only the top seam can be worked, because the rest are under water, a dead loss to this nation.
The cost was £600,000; it was not revenue; it was dead loss.
