Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under public ownership just a year ago, utility investors have wondered how it would fare. Last week, tall, balding T. H. Maenner, head of the Omaha Electric Committee, the group of Omaha citizens which runs it, proudly told them. After a year's operation, the utility has a net earned surplus of $661,000, 4½% of the $14,467,012 purchase price. It has also given all but administrative employes a flat $20-a-month raise, amounting to 12½% of the payroll...
Pesos & Polls. Glee from working Argentina and the cry "We Won!" from parading young Peronistas overshadowed complaints from workers excluded from the benefits, disappointment that the package delivered was not the one Perón planned (the Cabinet refused to approve an outright 25% share in net profits, basis of Perón's original draft), and the frank, understandable anger of management. Some employers would certainly refuse to pay, if only to test the constitutionality of the decree, but time had run out. A Supreme Court decision against the measure would merely tighten...
...most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
Although gross income for U.S. business will drop in 1946, repeal of the excess profits tax will keep net corporate profits at the 1945 level ($10 billion). But wages and salaries, because of lost jobs and less overtime, will drop some $25 billion. Unemployment will soar...
Liberalism, as an attitude of mind, goes back at least to Periclean Athens. Liberalism, as a political philosophy, is scarcely 100 years old. It is practically impossible to snare it in a neat net of definition. But its manifestations are everywhere. Its vigor, says Author Orton, is proved by the roster of its raging enemies. Among them he lists: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Pope Pius IX, Professor Harold Laski. "Dogmatists and determinists of the red or the black, defenders of the tyranny of men or majorities, exponents of class war, racial war, or national war, have discovered beneath their differences...