Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most powerful naval air force in the world: 18,269 planes on July 31, 1943, a ten times net increase over 1940, when Navy planes totaled 1,744. Since then the Navy has lost or written off as obsolete 6,800 planes and has transferred 2,100. >"Total naval shipbuilding is approaching its peak-as planned. . . . In the midst of war the U.S. has built its Navy into the greatest sea-air power on earth. Its size is dwarfed only by the size of the task which confronts...
...after half a year's silence-a half year strewn with retreats, defeats and disasters-Führer Adolf Hitler had to speak. It was the speech of a man caught in a net of facts...
Marshal Badoglio and his King escaped the Nazi net. At week's end, from refuge somewhere in the countryside, the Marshal and the King belatedly called upon their countrymen to resist the Germans...
This was the highest cash bid,* although the Illinois Institute of Technology had offered $5,500,000 in cash and long-term notes. And it was only $307,000 less than the Stevens' net cost to the Army in the first place. To rent the hotel would have cost over $1,000,000 (including some $300,000 for restoration...
...lines. But Gallowhur Chemical, some 90% owned by free-wheeling George, is different. As Gallowhur puts it, "we have Jack & Heintz ideas except that we don't shout down tubes." The employes already have free hospitalization and insurance (up to $1,500), will get a 30% participation in net profits if & when the U.S. Treasury allows...