Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fifth win of the season, the Crimson lacrosse team gave the Boston Lacrosse Club a sound 9 to 3 trimming on the Business School field Saturday, as Pete Zouck frolicked over the stubborn Bostonians to net four goals...
...sharp rebuke. It is quite true that the U.S.collects some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 more in sugar taxes than it pays out in benefits; true also that the tax of about ½? a lb. is originally paid by processors. But after deducting about $47,000,000 net revenue to the Government from sugar taxes and duty, U. S. consumers pay, according to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, between $215,000,000 and $250,000,000 extra each year for their sugar (at current prices) in order to support the system which makes profits possible for sugar producers-equivalent...
...stated that New York U. is the sixth largest university in the country, having an enrollment of 12,745. New York University, in its July 30, 1938 bulletin, claims to have a net enrollment, for the entire university, of 47,771. The 1940 World Almanac claims that it is the largest university in the U. S., with a total enrollment...
...Gypsum) was put in charge of Montgomery Ward in 1931, it was almost two-thirds as big as Sears, Roebuck (in sales), but losing money. Last year Montgomery Ward was over three-fourths as big as Sears, had a record gross of $474,900,000, a record net of $27,000,000. To help Montgomery Ward in this famous comeback, Sewell Avery hired top merchandising talent from other jobs : Walter Hoving from R. H. Macy, Frank M. Folsom from Hale Bros. in California, Raymond H. Fogler from W. T. Grant, many another. At Montgomery Ward, they were known as Avery...
...net result of all this reading matter is, if a random sample may be trusted, complete confusion by the time late September rolls around. Into this slough of despond the Crimson is endeavoring, as it has always in the past, to throw a faint ray of light. Unfortunately the Freshman members of the staff are very few and therefore the Crimson must rely upon its poll to get an accurate undergraduate opinion upon the courses normally open to Freshmen. This is the way in which '43 can pass on its heritage to '44, and if by the third page...