Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December 7, the antitorpedo net at Pearl Harbor was opened at 4:58 a.m. for the entrance of two minesweepers. It was kept open until...
...American troops last week landed in Northern Ireland, German U-boats were grimly at work sinking American ships off the Atlantic Coast. The two facts suggested a reasonable connection: the Germans had set out to attack the U.S. convoy but it had slipped through their net, and having missed their first objective the Germans chose their second best...
After the biggest year in radio history ($180,000,000 in net time sales, 13,800,000 sets sold, new record billings by CBS, NBC and Mutual), the exodus of war-hit industries from the air began in force last week. Chrysler Corp. cut down Major Bowes to a half-hour (CBS, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.); Lipton's Tea canceled Helen Hayes after Feb. 1 (CBS, Sunday 8 p.m. E.S.T.); then the Ford Motor Co. canceled the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), effective March 1. This was a grievous blow, and radiomen looked for more...
Without any increases at all, the roads are doing all right: net earnings for this year have already been guesstimated at 7½% over last year's $500,000,000, itself by far the best railroad year since 1930. Thus the rate increase was chiefly a gratuitous contribution to inflation...
...Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...