Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...could prudently rejoice that the Spectre was averted. Complete figures for 1928 showed low profits, heavy losses since 1927. But the figures also showed that the corner had been turned, that staggering inventory losses had been absorbed, that tire companies may reasonably hope for a happy and prosperous 1929. Net income reports of leading companies...
Worthy of note is Kreuger & Toll's financial statement. Net earnings in 1927 were $12,400,000; in 1928 they leaped...
Mansanto Chemical Works, Ltd., (Carbolic acid to kill. Aspirin to cure) net, $944,438. Previous year...
Fleischmann Co., (sole rights to Scientist Fred Hayduck's yeast process and Scientist Carl Neuberg's testimonials) net, $19,820,668. Previous year...