Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a hard-pressed cattleman commented, "La Frutera's rainmaker is capturing our clouds with a net!" many were inclined to agree that some kind of cloud-rustling was indeed going on. Local newspapers ran cartoons that showed Pilot Silverthorne as an airborne cowboy herding clouds with a lariat...
...public utilities, once so ailing, were doing almost as well as steel and autos, thanks to a bracing tonic of rate increases. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph, A.T. & T. controlled, boosted its net...
...industry, king of last year's profit parade, was still doing all right. But with crude oil once more in surplus and prices again competitive, the industry continued to slide from its boomtime peak. Phillips Petroleum's net dropped 40% from $36.5 million to $21.9 million, Socony-Vacuum's from an estimated $71 million to $47 million, down...
Paper companies, whose expansion had caught up with their worst shortages (e.g., newsprint, kraft paper), also were looking more normal. St. Regis' net was down from $8.7 million to $3.2 million...
...airlines fulfilled their predicted jump into the black (TIME, July 18). Eastern Air Lines' $2.1 million net was up 63%, Northwest Airlines' $430,915 profit helped offset a $2,016,000 deficit in 1948's first half...