Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improve New York's public schools as Dr. Gulick's committee recommends would cost some $38,000,000. But he contends that the State can save more than $40,000,000-$2,000,000 net-by consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
Skeets Canterbury, veteran coach of Crimson goalies, has three lettermen competing for the net job this year in Dave Mittel, Vint Freedley, and Howard Johnson...
Pregnant result of last week's elections is that two years hence, when another President is created, the Republican Party will be back in the running with 15 new gubernatorial machines. Losing only three Governorships, and retaining three, the G.O.P. had a net gain of eleven over last year. Five of them are in key States of the Industrial East and Midwest, three in important farm States, three in the Mountain States, one on the Pacific Coast. In 1940 these new Governors may be of prime political importance. Some of them are (see cuts...
...National Steel rose 42 points, Du Pont 4 points, both reaching new highs for the year, 151¼. Close behind was Bethlehem Steel with a 3¾-point advance. U. S. Steel rose 3¼-points, Chrysler 2½. The New York Times index of 50 stocks made a net gain of 2.52 points, biggest post-election-day advance since the index was started 27 years ago. Two hundred and one stocks hit new 1938 highs...
...number of chain stores decreased 8.3%. In A. & P.'s case there is a profit of between one and three per cent which it takes away from communities; however, it sells its foods at from eight to ten per cent under independent competitors, hence gives the community a net saving of from five to nine per cent...