Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becoming familiar; the army camps and airfields that are still dim and a little disquieting to citizens. In its war issue, FORTUNE appraises the U.S. war effort from the point of view of editors to whom the new scenes are familiar, the new faces long known. And the net of their appraisal is that the U.S. is not succeeding in the task of organizing itself to cope with the world of war. They say that it is not mastering the complexity of its industrial life. The U.S. that emerges has shortages in many things-in raw materials, steel, power, transportation...
Last month was the first July in ten years in which the New York Telephone Co. put in more telephones than it took out. The score: 1,687 net installations v. 3,393 net removals in July 1940. A reason: unusual number of beach cottages rented by defense workers...
...American Iron and Steel Institute reported that Germany's steel output fell off 1,467,000 tons in 1940-to 28,150,000 net tons (U.S. production in 1940: 66,-993,000 tons...
...net income over $100,000 from sales of radio time, a tax starting...
...last week the picture was correct: a great expanse of camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...