Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emotional, intuitive Adolf Hitler prefers to move in a mysterious way, but the net result of what Der Führer did last week was to put all German domestic affairs in the ham-fists of Hermann Wilhelm Göring who, in effect, became Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Hitler. This was accomplished when Der Führer signed a decree which recalled his promise to the Nurnberg Nazi Party Congress (TIME, Sept. 21) that by 1940 the Fatherland will have been made economically independent of all other countries. Last week the Realmleader vested in General Göring...
...Pont de Nemours showed a $23,875,048 profit compared to $17,704,182 in the third quarter of 1935. From du Font's investment in General Motors came more than one-half this net. Nine-month earnings were $62,567,019 against $40,154,667 last year...
Corn Products Refining, world's biggest corn grinder (Argo starches, Karo corn syrup, Mazola oil), reported a nine-month net of $8,339,192, compared to $5,373,070 for the first three quarters...
THREE-WHEELING THROUGH AFRICA-James C. Wilson-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). As the strange and obscure folkways of African natives become better known, white travel-writers through the dark continent are driven to increasingly eccentric exploits in their desire to stay off beaten paths and make interesting copy. Net result is that a collection of recent African books is likely to give armchair travelers a vague feeling that both blacks and whites in Africa habitually suffer from a touch of tropic sun, natives indulging in some pretty weird ceremonies, their white observers indulging in carrying-ons no less grotesque. A patient...
This action of the Council follows on three or more weeks of active discussion of the rule. House Masters, house committees, and other groups have considered the question from every angle, the net conclusion being that the rule was unnecessary...