Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most serious trouble is not gun fire. For eight weeks now the Communists have worked tirelessly and with much success to chop up China's communications and paralyze Government progress into North China. The Chinese railway net work north of the Yangtze River is cut in innumerable places. The only important road still operating north of the Yellow River is the Tsinan-Tientsin-Peiping line...
...seiner Angle and Florence, out of Gloucester, Mass., was about to bag a school of mackerel. The boat towed the net, buoyed and weighted, around the milling fish. Next step was to close the "purse" and haul the mackerel aboard...
...sharks had been deeply offended. A boat had towed two cloth bags full of the Navy's new shark repellent all around the net. The concoction's smell was so revolting to the sharks that they lost interest in the mackerel...
...this bookkeeping profit did not conceal the fact that steel company earnings are down. U.S. Steel Corp. was a better bellwether. Steelmen estimated that its net profits in the third quarter will be down to around $12,000,000 v. $16,800,000 last year...
Best example was huge Bethlehem Steel Corp. It made more money this year than last. Yet its net income for the quarter dropped to $22,100,000, little more than half that of the same quarter in 1944. Reason: it wrote off $44,000,000 in deferred amortization (depreciation, purchase of new facilities, etc.), came up with a $27 million deficit and thus cut its taxes so much that it had actually overpaid them in the first part of this year. This tax credit was more than enough to offset the deficit in income, thus gave Bethlehem a reported net...