Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from reports to the Bureau of Internal Revenue: 1) .1% of U. S. corporations own 52% of all corporate assets, get 50% of all corporate income, less than 5% of U. S. corporations own 87% of the assets and less than 4% of manufacturing corporations get 84% of their net profits; 2) even in 1929 .3% of the population got 78% of the dividends and 3) in 1936, 33% of all inheritances went to 4% of all heirs. Taking this as premise No. 1, the President proposed as premise No. 2 that the concentration was due to monopolistic trends...
...forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have the opportunity to earn a living in Vienna, warned: "Jews! Abandon all hope. Our net is so fine that you will not find a hole in it through which you can slip to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. There is only one possibility for you : emigrate - if some one will accept you." While Herr Bürckel wants an "Aryanization" of Vienna just...
...think about politics until the tourists left by April 1. Arriving early in March in Tallahassee, where he and his pretty young wife used to have a suite in the Emilie at the Quintuplet Apartments, Senator Pepper was promptly laid low for two weeks by an attack of grippe. Net consequence was to give a head start to his energetic rivals...
...position for the second year. On the vacation trip he played sensationally, but he has not been very effective since. His clever stickwork has been a great help both defensively and offensively. Jerry Cook, another goalle, is also being used some on the attack. Mel Gordon is the third net-minder...
Judge Jarecki was still in charge of county election officers, and when vote counters finished their work last week, it showed that Messrs. Kelly & Nash had for the first time been roundly defeated-508,000-to-466,000-on their home ground. Net significance was a possibility that when Mr. Nash comes up for re-election as county Democratic chairman next week, he may be defeated; and that whether he is defeated or not, the Kelly-Nash machine-biggest and most powerful municipal political organization in the land since the defeat of Tammany-was definitely no longer anything...