Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Second largest U. S. steel corporation)?$15,826,142. Previous year $20,246,167. "Unfortunately the economies in production have not resulted in a corresponding increase in the net income, because the prices of steel products have steadily declined," said President Eugene Gifford Grace...
...makers of "mere mischief" sentences of 10 years imprisonment each. Commenting on the trial, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg vigorously stressed his belief that only part of a general Russian-subsidized spy system had been uncovered. "Unluckily," said he "we have not been able to gather in our net all those concerned, though I trust the result of this trial will make others think before they pursue their dangerous and treasonable activity...
Over the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Buffalo is 447 miles from Manhattan. Intervening is a country marvelously rich in farm, mine and factory products. They furnish a revenue of approximately $75,000,000 a year to the railroad. Of that sum about $8,000,000 is net profit. Control of so profitable a road is worth fighting for. And men, sitting in Philadelphia for the corporation's annual meeting of stockholders last week, did fight...
...fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest way. $2.50 Net...
...atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also as soon as a character is introduced, what he or she is going to do in every situation...