Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Segura's lusty swings are deceptive: a shot that seems to start as a forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...
...bill, as shaped by the Committee, would up corporation taxes to a staggering $4,354,200,000. It not only would impose the first surtax ever levied on corporate income: 5% on surtax net income of $25,000 or less, 6% on anything over that. But excess-profits taxes will start at 35% (instead of 25%), rise to 60% (instead of 50%), and, most important of all, will be calculated before instead of after deducting normal taxes, thereby greatly increasing the levy. Moreover, the present 8% credit on invested capital is cut to 7% on capital over...
...major networks sold about half of radio's $154,823,787 worth of advertising, garnered some 5% of the net profits...
...Mutual's time sales were $3,600,161, leaving it with a $39,712 net loss...
...most elementary radio program ever devised in the U.S. vacated the air waves last week. It was NBC's Pot o' Gold, which in its heyday a year ago kept 15,000,000 listeners at home each Tuesday night, hoping that a telephone call would net them $1,000. The Pot survived an investigation by the Department of Justice, bitter complaint by cinemoguls whom it robbed of Tuesday-night audiences. In the course of its 89-week existence, the Pot distributed a whopping $89,000 in easy cash...