Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portugal and Argentina. These countries are more aware than OPA that prices for pulp and other commodities in the world markets cannot always be regimented to fit domestic price controls. Last week, in fact, ' the Swedes were rumored to have made a deal with the British-which would net the pulp exporters $10 a ton more than they could make by selling...
...surprises. Biggest surprise was that many companies made more money this year than in the vintage year of 1944. despite a wide shift in war orders and increasing operating costs. The National City Bank of New York, totting up the returns of some 310 companies, reported that net profits, after taxes, were up a respectable 6% for the quarter...
Manpower controls will also go by the board as the labor pool fills up. Within 30 days Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt tentatively plans to suspend most of his job controls. WPB estimates that within six months 1,500,000 men will be released from war plants, plus a net gain of 500,000 from military releases...
...Russian in San Francisco had been alternately sullen and affable, domineering and humble. Net reaction: what the hell? Then came the Russians' first formal, enlightening statements to the conference...
...gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body." Wolfgang Paalen not only splashes words around - he edits and publishes a slick, desperately esoteric, semiannual literary...