Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some day city people will learn that as far as milk is concerned, the OPA has been their No. 1 enemy. . . . The present system of price fixing on food products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation of opportunity and incentive...
Kaltenborn left the Eagle in 1930 for WABC, key station of the Columbia net work. He was 52. Since then he has been a prize example both of radio's oracular virtues and its faults...
...net the evil which demands the Church's attention. Jesus didn't campaign against war. He fought dishonesty, injustice, oppression and selfishness. Above all, he taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. War is only a means to an end. . . . This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within...
...interest yield on long-term tax-exempt bonds came last week: a bloc of Connecticut State 1½, due in 1967, changed hands at a price that will net the buyer 1%. At such a rate, it is more profitable for people in low tax brackets to buy taxable bonds and pay income taxes on their yields. But by people with really big fortunes and tremendous taxes, long-term tax-exempts are still eagerly sought after, tightly held...
Down Profits. WPB's piano ban was mainly laid down to force the highly skilled piano craftsmen into war work. The shift has been unprofitable, from the management view. Payrolls have risen sharply, but earnings are down. Recently Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest U.S. maker of pianos, reported a net profit of $1.63 per share for the last fiscal year, way under the $2.48 of 1941. Only cheer for manufacturers: the thousands of new piano players should make for the greatest market in their history...