Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in three years, "Situation Wanted" advertisements appeared in the classified columns of the Los Angeles Times. Most of the advertisements were inserted by women, many of whom want housework. (The Chamber of Commerce reported that in the Los Angeles area there had been a net loss of 15,000 factory workers in the past month...
Morton also reported that "every single vehicle was American made, including jeeps, amphibious 'ducks,' command cars, trucks, and even a pale blue Ford sedan covered with a camouflage net...
...Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...
...Cupper, whose mechanical, methodical steadiness had often carried him close, but never quite to, the title. Parker, with a day of rest after his four-set semifinal win over Lieut. Don McNeil, was on the top of his smooth game. Talbert's only hope was to reach the net, and he seldom managed it except in the second set. Parker...
...Payoff. Grumman is certain that his realism pays. The company has made money and paid dividends every year since it started. From its first year's sales if $110,000, the total swelled to $278,500,000 last year. On this, the company netted $6,598,200 after contract redetermination, including a postwar refund of "1,955,000. This year the company has turned out an estimated $156,000,000 in planes, including its new twin-engined fighter, the Tigercat, in the first six months. After renegotiation and taxes, Grumman expects to net a little more than last year...