Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, one Albert Jauron announced that he had perfected an anti- aircraft projectile which, upon exploding in midair, would fling out a net to enmesh or envelop an airplane as a lepidopterist snares a butterfly. The Japanese Government having recently announced the adoption of just such a shell, Inventor Jauron declared he would...
...Net debt, $2,403,005,035 against $2,409,326,639 at the end of the 1923-24 fiscal year...
Profits for last year totaled $100,435,416?from the sale of 2,100,000 units, consisting of 1,950,000 cars, trucks and tractors in this country and 190,000 sold abroad. Thus, net profit per unit manufactured last year amounted to $47, as against $37 in ten months of the previous fiscal year, and $77 in the year ending Feb. 28, 1923. Thus even Henry Ford is feeling the diminishing profits generally complained of in the motor industry, although he has by no means reached the place where he has cause for complaint himself...
...most important general educational change effected in Harvard College during recent years" is, Professor Moore's estimate of the tutorial system in the current "Alumni Bulletin". Few will disagree. But that he should write: "The net result is a larger intellectual interest among undergraduates than before", is more surprising, for inasmuch as the article is printed by the "Standing Committee of the Board of Overseers in Relations with the Alumni" it may be judged to represent the matured opinion of the Faculty. There seems to be no reason to doubt Professor Moore's conclusion; the few figures he quotes...
Waking Up the Town. A story circulated recently to the effect that Norma Shearer has signed a long contract with Goldwyn which will eventually net her $1,000 a day. Miss Shearer is a fairly good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...