Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sophistication, however, is making progress along other lines. Malayan authorities were told that the only extra equipment required would be a shirt apiece. The Dyaks had other ideas. Jabu informed the camp commandant that each Dyak would need a messkit and cup, a groundsheet, a blanket and a mosquito net...
...still to be sold. The reasons were plain. On tolls ranging from $1 and $1.50 for motorcycles and cars to $10 for heavy trailer trucks, the eight-year-old highway has shown a handsome profit every year. All during wartime gas rationing, the commission managed to keep the annual net above the million mark by promoting the turnpike's time-saving advantage (more than three hours on the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia run) for trucks. Last year, with some 3,000,000 vehicles passing over it, the highway cleared nearly...
Driver's Seat. Yearly sales of Loewy-designed products now exceed $1 billion. Loewy's own gross runs between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. His net, which he shares with five partners, including his good friend and ex-wife Virginia Thomson Loewy, is a secret, but Loewy manages to keep up two French chateaux, a Park Avenue apartment, a Long Island estate and a California desert hideaway. He likes to buy new limousines and restyle them to his own exacting taste...
Meanwhile, Sammartino, his congressional immunity lost, has gone underground. Perón's federal police have raided his home, and spread a net for him the length of Argentina...
Jackpot. General Motors' second-quarter earnings were something. On sales of $1,145,000,000, the net profit was $110 million. For the half year, G.M.'s gross was up only 22% over 1947. But its net was up more than 50% ($4.55 per common share v. $2.97), thanks to higher prices and steadier operations...