Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Friday afternoon he was trapped in the most thorough manhunt ting him when he entered the court Harvard has seen in a decade. Spot-the Lowell men threw a net of athletic huskies around the building and then, joined by four yardcops, began a three-quarters of an hour chase through the entries and basement tunnels. Once he was trapped in a fifth floor closet but escaped again for the moment. Finally caught he attempted to bluff his way out but was taken to the Cambridge jail and held for trial...
...Since 1929 there has been a net gain of only 9,000 Presbyterians; congregations have had to put six members on the suspended list for every seven received...
...Russian attack had not. The German Army still held Kharkov, Pittsburgh of the Ukraine and key to a fine transportation net whose loss would have hurt the Nazis immeasurably. When the battle subsided after a Russian thrust into German supply lines north of Kharkov, the Germans claimed "a proud victory of annihilation": 240,000 prisoners taken, 1,249 tanks captured or destroyed, 538 aircraft shot down...
...evade taxes. A $4,100-a-year foreman got $25,000 extra; an $8,000 superintendent got $50,000; a $6,600 vice president got $50,000 too. All told, $2,071,315 was passed out in bonuses last year-nearly 10% of gross sales, and about 80% of net profits...
...operations have been a case history of James F. Lincoln's pet theory. With sales ballooning from $4,273,000 to $24,189,000, and profits rising more slowly from $1,403,000 to $2,583,000, he raised his incentive bonus payments from 10% of net to 80%. This system is worked in conjunction with low base pay compared with going rates for the trade, so as to permit the company-in James Lincoln's words-to "skate through a tough period without going broke." Nevertheless the average worker's total pay has gone from...