Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Informers tattled on others. Some deserters were caught in the Army's net. But the catch was not big. Last week the Defense Department announced that of the 6,300-odd soldiers reported AWOL two weeks before, 4,600 were still at large...
Over in the classroom we find that B. "Specs" Grinaker and "Jim-the-Face" Madison have a deep sense of appreciation for some of the finer antics put on for our benefit by prominent persons in the Business School. The net result of these characterizations hasn't been reported as yet but they are expected to have a great effect on the actors' marks--in other courses than Statistics, of course...
...huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize and Saint-Vith, the Germans still had a net of secondary roads to move on. Rundstedt seemed in good shape to hold a more easterly defense line, or to go all the way back to the concrete fastnesses of the Westwall...
Much has taken place in the privatizes of our dear company since we last appeared in print. The Christmas leave was spent profitably (either in action or just comfortably asleep all day), New Year's Eve was written off as a gross loss, but the final net profit for the period won't be determined until the results of those fateful mid-terms are publicized on or about 15 January. As Herman Homer Cone says, "It isn't the marks, it's the worry and uncertainty that slays...
...rise is typical of the railroads' wartime boom. The stream of freight to Southern industries and troops to & from Southern camps boosted L. & N.'s gross from $88 million in 1939 to $178 million for the first ten months of 1944. Net profits this year should run well over $15 million, double those of five years...