Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration is the attitude of the Church to Pagan culture, which it did not reject but combined with its own teaching in a new, Christian humanism. $4.00 net...
...side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive. He coaxed Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points passing him. This week, at Forest Hills, will be played the U. S. Professional Championship Tournament. Until amateurs gain enough nerve to enter professional tournaments, the winner of this is only unofficially the open champion...
Bees. New Jersey's most industrious insects are bees. They number 30,280 cultured colonies, which gave a net income of $113,250 ($3.74 per colony) last year. It cost $16.52 to keep each bee colony, $9.33 for the bees, the rest for equipment...
Twenty years ago the Fisher brothers organized their motor car body business as a Michigan corporation. It prospered collaterally with the motor industry. Two years ago Fisher Body's net tangible assets were practically $90,000,000. General Motors, their chief customer, had by that time acquired three-fifths of their stock; the Fisher brothers owned most of the rest. Finally they traded all their holdings to General Motors for General Motors stock...
Tense is the competition in the salt mining industry. Saltman Fuller saw net earnings fall from $507,339 in 1926 to $327,000 in 1927, to only $3,108 for the first six months of 1928. On the stock exchange, International Salt dropped from a high of 92 in 1923 to a low of 54⅛ in 1928. Lessened demand, competitive price cutting, are among apparent causes of depression...