Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face and two holes...
Last week the Senate Finance Committee saw the light, voted not to tax such paper profits. If this change becomes law, Class I carriers may well use half of this year's anticipated $650,000,000 net plus all the money the banks would lend them to cut their capitalizations. (One Eastern road almost got the banks to pay off half its bonds last year...
...Gave families with sickness expense a break by approving the deduction of medical expenses exceeding 5% of net income but not more than...
...corner and down-the-line shots, Everts was ahead all the way, winning 6-1, 6-4. Dunlop kept things even in the second set until three all, but then Everts went on to take the next two games with beautiful drop shots and sharply angled placements at the net...
...great deal of it is better than good; it is superior in quality and performance." General Arnold then ran through the list of leading U.S. planes-P-40, Airacobra, Lockheed P-38 and North American P-51 fighters; Fortresses, Liberators, B-25 and B-26 bombers-and left the net impression that all were top-hole...