Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owns a controlling interest in the Mirror is Fleet Street's biggest mystery. But the board of directors and thousands of stockholders are quite satisfied to let Bartholomew, chairman of the Mirror and Pictorial, run both papers as long as they make fat profits (net for their last fiscal years: ?535,111). Now 64, he has run the Mirror since 1931, built it up from a circulation of only 800,000. As if this were not enough to compensate for an inferiority complex, self-made Mister Bart bought himself the biggest Rolls Royce in Fleet Street, still likes...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
...that cautious attitude was a measure of past apathy, the election returns themselves were an impressive token of the awakening. An unusually heavy vote in elections to municipal councils throughout England and Wales showed that the Conservatives had made a net gain of 621 council seats. Labor suffered a net loss of 652 seats. Labor's loss in industrial areas was particularly notable. Grim and grimy Birmingham, which the Chamberlain family had accustomed to Tory rule, put 65 Tories in its council of 136. Manchester, Reading and Rugby went Conservative. It was the first major political shift in Britain...
Compared to General Motors Corp.'s report last week, Big Steel's rise was small. G.M.'s net for the nine months was $213,217,476, up 1,300% over 1946, when strikes shut G.M. down much of the time. Both companies actually did better than the net profit showed. They charged off record amounts for depreciation on the theory that "normal" depreciation write-offs are too small in the face of rising prices. Such write-offs, which for tax purposes are considered as profit, would have boosted Big Steel's net by $19.6 million more...
Item: that running backs are about as plentiful on the home side of Soldiers Field as ospreys in the Gobi Desert. Harvard gained a net four (4) yards rushing Saturday, and except for Hal Moffie it was frequently hard to tell which way the backs were running...