Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days dragged by, monotonous and deadly, rain came and brought drinking water-and raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed...
Although a very experienced singles player, Jenkins did not compete in doubles competition until this year when Coach Barnaby developed his net play and overhead game with the result that he and Captain Wilson saw action as the first or second double combination in most of the meets this year...
...worse, accounting for $100,000,000 of the loss. (The rest comes from reduced refinery volume, etc.) Secretary Ickes last week told how the oil companies bought crude in Texas for 85? a bbl., paid $1.65 rail shipping costs, then sold it at a price-fixed $1.80 for a net loss of 70? a bbl. Atlantic Refining showed first-quarter profits of only $1,237,000 ($2,600,000 a year ago), explained that delivery costs per barrel of crude to the refinery have soared 500% in the past year...
...amphibious character of Pan American Airways Corp. was well shown in its annual report last week. As a corporation, Pan Am earned $3,361,252, a new high; reported a net U.S. Government subsidy of $429,000, a new low. But the report also read like a military communique, for Pan Am is an instrument of U.S. policy and a weapon of global war. Though 38 Pan Am men are Jap prisoners, the news was mostly very good...
...Hurley was the leading scorer for the visitors with three goals. Mal Donahue followed with two, while Simmons, and Fenn hit the net once each...