Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general terms it is correct to say that the railroads have practically exhausted the obvious and simple expedients for increasing efficiency and net revenue. The day of extensive and spectacular achievement is practically passed except in the few instances where the adoption of modern operating methods has been deferred. Extensiveness has given way to intensiveness. The general manager and the superintendent of today have fewer opportunities for reducing expenses than were open to them a decade ago. There is, therefore, an urgent need for young man with broad educational attainments, men who have been taught to think straight and whose...
...easy it would be to kill any game by placing penalties on mere errors of execution. Suppose a netted ball in tennis should lose the game, the fine free dashing close-to-the-net play would be killed. If an error in baseball should give the batters an additional, inning, the hard chances (which are the joy of players and spectators) would be avoided. No game should have rules that arbitrarily penalize good play out of existence, and football has just that feature...
...football were the only major sports which made money. Football was the biggest money maker with its receipts showing a gain of over $74,282 over the expenses. Baseball came next, earning about $12,486. Crew showed the greatest loss with $17,559; track involved the next greatest net expense, with $10,709, followed by hockey with...
...good time. The League of Nations had undertaken plans for disarmament, but they amounted to nothing more than an expression of a desire, because Japan, though agreeing to the sentiment, refused to be bound in any way while the United States was proposing to double its naval appropriations. The net result of all the talk was the conclusion that however desirable disarmament might be, it was unwise, until this country was also restricted. Senator Borah's resolution answers Japan's objection with no ambiguity. League or no League, we are ready to do business in the matter of naval disarmament...
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