Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture reported that 2,155,000 persons moved from farms to cities in 1926. Only 1,135,000 moved from cities to farms. Farm births exceeded farm deaths by 371,000, leaving a net farm loss of 649,000 people, enough for a new city the size of Pittsburgh...
...Capital net gain from sale...
General William Wallace Atterbury, President, Pennsylvania Railroad Co., said last week that 1926 was the road's most profitable year-net income $67,567,958 from total railway operating revenues of $766,989,363. The system operates 4.9% of the total miles of road and 7.05% of the total miles of track in the U. S., yet last year handled 10.92% of all the freight traffic arid 17.91% of all the passenger traffic. It carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles...
...feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...
...participation in matches in five different cities. Two matches on this year's list were on the schedule which the University netmen faced last season. In the Mason-Dixon Championships at White Sulphur Springs last Spring, the Crimson team suffered its only defeat when Tilden, Richards, and other net stars of a like caliber subdued the Harvard players. The net team with again meet the Norfolk Country Club players, whom they defeated last Spring...