Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything with the money he gets from his grain, and 2) the Government is levying heavy grain taxes upon him by forcing him to sell most of his crop at a low Government-fixed price (to keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government to combat the negative attitude of the peasant...
Fleischmann Co. makes nearly all the compressed yeast sold in the U. S. Its eleven factories have a capacity of some 500.000 lbs. of yeast per day. In 1928, net sales were $64,004,366; net income $19,820,668. Fleischmann Co. is also one of the world's largest vinegar producers. ships in its own tank cars 15,000,000 gals. of vinegar per annum. The company has consistently promoted Baker's Bread v. Home Made Bread; cheerfully notes that in 1919, 60% of U. S. bread was sold by bakers, in 1928 the baker's share had risen...
Such, in effect, was the net result of the much-heralded oil conservation meeting held last week at famed Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, on the call of President Hoover (TIME, June 10). Three hundred delegates attended. From eleven oil-producing States came Governors or their representatives. The U. S. was there in the persons of Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and Mark Lawrence Requa, the meeting's chairman and the President's special representative. Nine billion dollars of the eleven-billion-dollar U.S. oil industry were actively represented. For three days the delegates wrestled with oil, deplored...
...about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring in as much fish as is needed to keep...
...Story. The net effect is feverish horror. Surcease is afforded bY Paul's leave, by a stolen feast, by the men's comradeship, by their tender care of the absurdly young recruits, by mild affairs with several motherly prostitutes...