Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third day the market stopped to catch its breath, rub its eyes, see whether Europe really was in the mess the ticker showed. On that day 3,770,000 shares were traded, tops for the week. Net result: a rise of 0.81 in the averages, which stopped new margin calls, but sucked back into the market many a small margin trader...
...fashion designer bought a short-length Bruyere creation in black net with taffeta inserts (modeled by Barbara Gushing, sister of the President's ex-daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt...
...Election of new clubs, fixing of net annual dues, selection of 1941 meeting place...
Scoring two tallies in every quarter except the third, in which they found the net three times, the stickmen were ahead all the way. Backing up Pete Zouck's scoring splurge, Doug Anderson, Gordy Halstead, Ed Edmunds, Ben Ferris, and Fred Benedix were each acredited with one point apiece. For the Boston Club, Coffin with two scores and Cochrane with one were responsible for the team's total of three...
...claims arising from Mexico's seizure of their properties in exchange for $9,000,000 cash (payable over three years) plus 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 barrels of oil to be supplied by the Mexican Government over a six-year period at a price reputed to net Sinclair a $7,000,000 profit. Jesus Silva Herzog went on to claim that he had sold or was in course of selling $54,000,000 worth of petroleum "for cash" to various U. S. firms. He said Manhattan's Petroleum Heat & Power Co. was "negotiating...