Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scored, or cut, vertically in six places to help it break; net-encased to keep the glass from flying...
Result: for a total outlay of $693,000, Saskatchewan has acquired a tax-free power company which last year showed net profits of $334,000 and which had 400 miles of line and some 8,000 customers. Probable next step: provincial purchase of another private power company, in the province, Saskatchewan's Prairie Power...
Labor turnover at the shipyards had always been high, but the yards had usually been able to hire replacements. Puget Sound yards were suffering a net loss of 2,500 workers a month...
...along the pulley line stretching from her kitchen window, Helen heard a spirited commentary from dozens of Aleut women, who had assembled on the square below. "Is funny pants," shouted one when Husband Thornie's pajamas appeared. "What is?" When Helen's blue net dressing gown sailed out, it drew a tremendous round of applause. "Is pretty!" shouted the gallery. "To dance...
...newly acquired Midas touch of the airlines. Thanks to the Army, which returned 251 planes, the airlines finally had enough equipment to cash in heavily on the war-booming traffic. Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines led the parade with a 150% increase in net profits: $446,091 v. $178.520 last year. United Air Lines was right on its tail; in the busiest first quarter in its history it netted $1,643,288 (v. last year's $1.110,083). American Airlines, likewise bragging of its heaviest traffic ever, cashed in to the tune...