Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arriving vessel are held for inquiry.) Most, if not all, would speedily be freed after a session with a board of inquiry. This week, the Batory sailed for England again-32 minutes late and with 838 passengers this time. The Government looked a little small with its big empty net...
...aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
...since 1947, Banker Black has been a strong force behind its conservative lending policies. Almost singlehanded, he put across the sale of $250 million in World Bank bonds at a time when U.S. investors were skeptical of the bank's future. With his help, the bank boosted its net for the first nine months of this fiscal year to $7,383,006 (v. $2,242,597 in the same 1948 period...
Gump's sharp break with its incensescented past was decreed by Richard Benjamin Gump, 43, an artist-entrepreneur who took over as president in March 1947. This year he has boosted business 10% over 1948 (when the net profit was $160,000 on a gross of $2,600,000). To Dick Gump the change was part of a crusade against "that awful, stuffed-shirt attitude about art which scares the people and keeps the merchandise on your shelves...
...first nine minutes of play, the visitors jumped to a 5 to 2 lead at the half. Pembroke tried to tighten up its field at the start of the second 20 minute period, but could only score once before felding. Miss Worthington sent three goals into the net and the game was over...