Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orders would mean up to $5,000 in fines, up to one year imprisonment, or both. Workers who failed to go back immediately would lose their jobs and all their seniority rights. And if they balked as long as 24 hours they could be drafted into the Army. All net profits made under Government operation would go into the U.S. Treasury. Harry Truman, well aware of the scope of the bill, carefully put a limit on it: six months after the officially proclaimed...
...durable sort, for she admitted that she had returned to the doctor's office again & again. She also said that in "vengeance" she had circulated scurrilous pamphlets about him, put garlic in the soap-tray of his consulting room. The jury deliberated, found in her favor, assessed the net damage to her reputation and virtue at one farthing (¼ cent...
When chubby Harry Reutlinger was a high-school boy, ushering in a North Side Chicago theater, a movie called Net of the News decided him on his career. The old Evening American took him on as a copy boy, and in ten years of beat-covering he learned his home town inside out. By the time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh...
...Pfizer. Fortnight ago demand was so heavy for Pfizer stock at the market's opening that no price could be set. When it finally opened, it was up six points over the previous day's close. Reason: Pfizer issued a quarterly report that net income, $553,352 in the first quarter of 1945, had jumped to $2,857,788; earnings were up from $1.10 to $1.94 a share. With $900,000 of this cash, Pfizer last week bought the surplus 30-acre Submarine Victory Yard in Groton, Conn...
...company's first novel, September Remember, had a good sale (14,000 copies). But, contrasted with Prentice-Hall's 1945 total net profit of $556,761, this was peanuts. Then Pres. Ettinger met Ros Marshall in Hollywood, liked her, quickly signed her up to write three books for Prentice-Hall. Since then he has signed up other authors, plans to put out ten more novels this year. Said President Ettinger, dazzled by the dollar-decked Duchess: "It will have a $1,000,000 sale before the year is up. And there'll be more like...