Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gala Ghost. Most luminous ghost will be the Newport scene itself. Since 1881, when the brand-new Casino held the first U.S. national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since...
...Last year U.S. farmers reduced their total mortgage debt by $360,000,000, three times the average net reduction of the three preceding years. Total farm debt is down some 10% from the beginning of 1939, whereas farm mortgages almost doubled in value between...
...Allied merchant tonnage "has shown a large net increase every month this year...
This means that every dollar earned between June 1 and Dec. 31, after payment of taxes and operating expenses, will be clear net profit. But railroad stockholders are still a long way from jingling the profits in their pockets. Still to be decided are wage demands of 1,350,000 operating and nonoperating rail employes. Possible cost: approximately $400,000,000 annually...
...contracts, poured her first steel eleven days after Pearl Harbor. To meet Navy production schedules (for valve fittings, aircraft-carrier arresting gear, submarine net cable-guides), Mrs. Shofner deliberately overloaded her melting furnaces a full 100%. This was dangerous, but she put her faith in a skilled crew and a silver medal (the Virgin on one side, Christ on the other) sealed in the foundation of the furnaces. Said she: "God's on our side and anything that comes out of these furnaces fights...