Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those two sums, combined, are probably far bigger than his 1943 profits will be. Last year his gross business was only about $500,000 under this year's estimated $34,000,000; his net income...
...meeting him for the first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
Cradle to Grave. All this smart, fast buying did what it was supposed to do -zoomed profits. For the first nine months this year, sales hit an alltime high of $62,000,000, with an estimated net profit after taxes of $3,200,000 ($3.50pershare...
Nettled Men. To meet the mounting demand, the fishermen will work every day through the month-long run; during spells of bad weather, which delays clearing the nets, many a fisherman will work from before dawn until midnight. This year they will labor anxiously. Reason: recently OPA pegged the price of herring before the run at about 3? a pound. Fishermen snorted like Paul Bunyan's blue ox, threatened to hang up their nets. OPA relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing...
Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...