Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelworkers' union, withdraw his wage demands if Fairless announced a price cut? Murray, afraid of weakening his bargaining position, would not commit himself. He has simply made it clear that he thinks Steel can raise wages, an argument given substance by U.S. Steel's 1946 net profit: $88.7 million. Murray and Fairless were like two men, who, distrusting each other, frantically held onto the same gun. Neither dared to be the first...
...Senate a bill to continue sugar controls until next November. Then it slumped back to await consideration of the long overdue tax bill, modified in committee by the G.O.P. leadership. The 20% across-the-board reduction was flattened out; the proposed cuts now range from 30% for net incomes less than $1,000 to 10½% for those over...
...life of redheaded Pier Frixen and his wife, Nertha. Pier took over his father's farm in 1918. But he quarreled with the old man about marrying silver-blonde Nertha, who was half Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking across the valley at the Hills of the Lord which he had first seen...
...late J. P. Morgan, whose name, to most people, connotes enormous wealth, turned out to have left a net estate of only $4,642,791. The first appraisal since Morgan's death in 1943 showed that he had actually left $16,021,482, of which taxes gobbled up nearly $9,500,000. Morgan had planned it that way. He had given away more than $50,000,000 in driblets ($14,750,000 to the Pierpont Morgan Library, $14,810,340 to needy relatives, etc.) just to keep things "manageable...
...Jack Kramer. The champion hugged the baseline, matched Wood's finesse with power and control, won in three hard-fought sets, 6-3, 6-4. 6-4. In the finals, two days later, he faced Bobby Falkenburg (brother of Jinx), whose tremendous first serve and smashing net game had been too much for Davis Cupper Billy Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back up the cannon, and walked away with the match...