Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...
Into the Allied net swam the second biggest fish yet caught: smooth, grey Franz von Papen, 6 5-year-old ex-Chancellor, longtime instrument of German dagger diplomacy. Only Rudolf Hess, who had flopped up on the bank of his own accord, was a greater prize...
...said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet, all-but-casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced the next day. From the railroad station at Warm Springs came difficult, well-handled reports by the Blue...
Stuff & Nonsense? This scary talk, Deputy OPAdministrator for Prices James F. Brownlee promptly told the committee, was stuff & nonsense. Profits had little to do with the case. On every dollar of sales in the packing industry in 1944, he said, packers had made a net profit of 1.05?, which was well above their profits of .96? per dollar of sales in the years 1925-39. Thus, there was no reason to suppose that a boost in profits by a boost in price ceilings would mean more meat on U.S. dinner tables. The chief cause of the meat shortage, said...
...Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary completed their subcontract for wooden tent pegs. But the Philadelphia Record, delving into the business affairs of the convict-capitalists last week, was not so pleased. The reason: the four prisoners had grossed $58,300 in two years. In some months, their net profits ran as high as $450 apiece...