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Word: nets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came dispatch orders for his chief Pay Clerk with the four hash marks to be detached immediately... But after all, his specimens were still there. Net two cans came up two points abaft the beam, both of which wanted two certified money lists taken care of ... While he was delving into his specimens ... Along came a detachment of marines who hadn't been paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...poor) a year's income taxes, the fact remains that taxes on all incomes over $25,000 a year comprise only a fraction of the estimated $9,275,000,000 to be forgiven. And because the war has increased most U.S. incomes, the Senate bill will net the Treasury this year an estimated $2,000,000,000 more revenue than it would receive under the old system of collecting this year's taxes on last year's incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory for Marshal Ruml | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...appeared that the attorneys, who argued before the State Commission for a year without questioning its jurisdiction, would have a hard time making a case. Said the Chicago Sun: "The net result ... is to leave Chicago's traction muddle exactly where it was when the fight for unification started 15 years ago, except that it costs more (8? instead of 5?) to ride the streetcars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Straphanger's Lament | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...That stations affiliated with one net work cannot be kept from carrying the programs of other networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chains Chained | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...fund (or the Keynes Clearing Union) while a few nations in the Western Hemisphere, pre-eminently the U.S., will become its chief creditors. Meanwhile, Britain, in buying more from the U.S. than it sells to the U.S., while selling more to the Continent than it buys, would have the net effect of increasing the position of 1) the U.S. as creditor; 2) Europe as debtor. Thus, said Anderson, the U.S. will underwrite the financial risks of Britain's trade and be left holding the bag if the European debtors turn out to be no good. Anderson criticized even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Hard Things First | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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