Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black Packard limousine rolled on to Leningrad Highway past a huge statue of Lenin and mammoth apartment buildings with ragged faces, where war priorities had halted construction work. Nearer the city the highway merged into twelve-laned Gorki Street. Soldiers queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light of a match held to a long black cigar-a cherubic face...
...many more confused individuals. It takes what could have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood at its most chaotic. For sheer inconsistency of character, plot, and theme, "Crossroads" will be a tough one to beat...
...does not drive passengers away, the extra .55? will bring the roads well over $10,000,000. The bankrupt Seaboard Air Line, for example, hopes to collect an added $1,250,000 a year, about equal to its net income...
...taxes and operating costs, the current wave of dividend reductions is actually part of a decade-old U.S. economic trend. The August issue of FORTUNE points out that between 1929 and 1942 U.S. national income rose 35% to an estimated $113 billion, wages & salaries jumped 46% to $76 billion, net agricultural income soared 48% to $8 billion. But at the same time, interest, rents and royalties dropped 11% to $8 billion, dividend payments flopped 25% to $4 billion...
...United States and its allies need oil, net only for fuel but also for producing synthetic rubber and explosives, both of which are most important in wartime...