Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's borrowing capacity vanished, its net funded debt jumped nearly 200% in twelve years, while its assessment valuation increased only 45%. Meanwhile, whole sections of its great textile industry moved south, plants like the Baldwin Locomotive Works shifted to nearby counties, thousands of families decided they preferred the suburbs, migrated...
Life span of guns charged to fire 25 miles or better is about three seconds, net. That is, they can fire perhaps 50 times before their rifled steel linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...Net result of the week's air fighting was to show Joe Stalin that the Finns still did not scare...
...industry. In 1927 Allis-Chalmers' sales of all products totaled $30,593,000 and farm implements made up 7.7% of the total. By 1936 its gross from farm implements alone had topped $33,000,000. Farm implement sales were 2.9% of its earnings in 1927, 66.3% of the net nine years later. Among the reasons for this are that Allis-Chalmers introduced rubber tires on tractors (today 45-60% of all tractors sold are rubber-tired), and pioneered a small (six-foot) combine (harvester) aimed for use on the 2,694,000 U. S. farms of less than...
...months ago San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition suddenly closed, 34 days ahead of schedule. Although in midseason Fair officials had given out that the Fair's net liabilities were only $2,650,000 and were rapidly being reduced, by closing date its net liabilities had increased to $3,263,500-$4,265,362 total liabilities and $1,001,862 assets, of which $400,399 was accounts receivable...