Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilkes-Barre? As a result of the inaccessibility of airports, said the CAA, and the relatively slow cruising speed and limited range of light planes, the net time saved over the automobile on short trips would be slim. Sternly the CAA concluded: if manufacturers repeat their prewar mistake of overselling the light plane, the demand will be "washed out in a wave of disillusion...
...they too could increase wages without raising prices: ¶ Thirty-three cleaning-&-dyeing plants in Los Angeles signed a contract with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, C.I.O., granting 1,500 employes a 35% increase over the 1942 basic wage, reducing the work week from 44 to 40 hours. Net result: a 17% increase in take-home...
...Boston's Gillette Safety Razor Co. announced a 15% increase in the basic 40-hour rate for its 2,700 employes, as it cut its 48-hour work week to 44. Net result: a 2% increase in take-home pay. ¶ Standard Oil Co. of California handed out a 15% raise for 16,000 office and refinery workers, as it returned to the 40-hour week...
...annual German steel production, the Russians and Americans finally agreed on eight million tons; the British held out for twelve million. The row brought the U.S. and Russian representatives on the Allied Control Council closer together than they had been in weeks. The British were unhappy, but the net effect on Big Three relations was all to the good...
...Net Gain. For the first time in four years, buyers of human hair for the Venida Hair Nets are en route to China. They will buy hair for 65 million hairnets, subcontract the net-making to 300,000 Chinese women...