Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make this sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that...
...they had 15 enemy divisions "on the verge" of entrapment between Memel and Riga. Allied observers took this with some salt, recalling that when Bagramian drove to the Gulf of Riga last summer, 20 to 30 German divisions were supposed to have been bottled up in the north. The net bag, when that region was finally cleaned up last month, was not much more than five divisions...
This week, the Brookings Institution, famed for its economic studies, put out its own carefully considered estimate of postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits...
...years economists talked mainly in terms of the net national income (total of all income of individuals and corporations). But in 1942 the Department of Commerce ran a parallel new figure showing the "gross national product." This was naturally far higher; it included not only the national income but the "unjustified figures," such as depreciation reserves. In fact, it measures the value of U.S. production instead of only payments made to produce it. Said Brookings: "A distorted picture of national expansion has been built up in the minds of the public. One not infrequently reads that the national income...
...himself. In 1943 young Ellison was not so much a Future Farmer as a future country gentleman. In that year, he had 220 acres of cotton, 265 of milo, 27 of Sudan grass, ten of hegari (grain sorghums), 64 hogs, four dairy cattle, two beef cattle, 350 hens. Total net income for the year...