Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheapest place to buy insurance is at a savings bank. But only two States (New York and Massachusetts) allow banks to sell insurance and they limit the amount. The average annual net cost of an ordinary $1,000 straight life policy at savings banks in 1938 was $2.72. Other cost figures: New York Life $8.77, Aetna $10.32, Mutual Life of N. Y. $8.56, Travelers $10.29, Home Life...
Dazzled by the happy tidings, newsmen turned to the Dunn report. But in Mr. Dunn's blend of statistics and technical language, they found no such rose-colored picture. In 1940 the U. S. produced 66,674,000 net tons of steel ingots-a record. But during December the industry was working at a yearly production rate of 77,496,000 tons. Dunn figures that present U. S. steel capacity can be upped to a "reliable capacity" of 87,576,099 tons, merely by cutting down the closed-for-repairs period by 25% and adding excess capacity...
Throughout the game the Freshmen kept the Dartmouth goalie, Al Barrett, on his toes, and twice during the first period Reeves stickhandled his way through the opposition, only to have one drive miss an open net by inches and the other one bounce off the goalie's pads...
...figure: $228,142,412). So were estimates of its sales: around $1,650,000,000. But so was its tax bill: $125,100,000, compared to $44,852,190 in 1939. So were wages: up 20% to an average of $1,804 for hourly-rated workers. Hence net income rose only about $12,000,000 to $195,500,000, a figure which G. M. has surpassed twice in the last ten years...
Only the good work of Ted Lapres in the Green nets kept Pren Willetts' team from running up a substantial lead in the second. Time and again a Crimson bladesman would break loose and close in on Lapres, but the Dartmouth net minder succeeded in stopping all but two of the shots. Gordie McGrath tallied on an assist from Stacy Hulse, and Burgy Ayres counted with Duane getting an assist...