Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a Democratic battle royal with no holds barred, for out to break them was another tough political alliance consisting of Memphis' potent Boss Ed Crump and Tennessee's other Senator, bumbling Kenneth McKellar. Boss Crump had tuned up his machine (accustomed to turning out a net majority of 70,000 for his candidates), and Senator McKellar swung in his Federal patronage for their candidates (Prentice Cooper for Governor, Tom Stewart* for Senator). So Messrs. Browning and Berry, fighting for their political lives with the aid of the State machine, missed no possible tricks before the primary this...
...water, lit countless cigarets, pondered his problem. Should he finish the act the audience of 10,000 was waiting for, or return ignominiously to safety? The afternoon wore on, evening came. Still John Warde had not solved his problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope net which police were vainly trying to anchor below him. He nipped his burning cigaret out and down, 17 floors to the street. "I've made up my mind," he cried, and jumped. The crowd shrieked, rushed forward, suddenly retreated in silence...
...told, the net for the second quarter averaged an estimated drop of 70% in corporate profits from a year ago. For the nation as a whole, the Department of Commerce reported last week, income was off 8% from the first half of 1937, to $30,630,000,000. Should income in the next six months keep this pace, the 1938 total of $61,000,000,000 will be only $8,000,000,000 less than 1937-a smaller drop than anticipated...
...from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills' net never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last week, on General Mills' tenth anniversary, President Donald D. Davis released the company's financial statement for fiscal 1938 (ending May 31). Net income was $4,110,631, $192,758 below last year but fourth highest...
...Net significance of the Texas returns was that in a State primary local issues and local personalities can always overshadow national issues and even the personality of Franklin Roosevelt...