"Even when you take out the extraordinary items, they appear to have beat our estimates for operating income," he said.
The current display was tailored to the show's needs, allowing the "extraordinary items to speak for themselves," said Mr. Fafalios, who undertook the exhibition's design.
Excluding extraordinary items, AOL earned 23 cents a share.
The loss in 1969 in cluded extraordinary items of $1,414,000.
In the third quarter of 1969, extraordinary items were only $811,000, or 3 cents a share.
A year earlier, also excluding such extraordinary items, MetLife earned $370 million, or 47 cents a share.
Profit before extraordinary items was 995 million euros ($896 million), up from 465 million euros a year earlier.
Before special and extraordinary items, earnings were $64 million, or 13 cents a share.
Excluding extraordinary items and writedowns of assets, earnings grew by 18.8percentt.
Though they exclude extraordinary items, they include write-offs that companies think are best ignored.
