Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question whether steel's present capacity is adequate to defense needs, Mr. Murray humbly answered: "We do not know." But he did come out with a number of flat assertions certain to cause discussion. Chief of them: that the industry's output is 5,920,195 net tons short of real capacity. Other Murray claims...
Bessemer furnaces (now unused) could produce 1,965,800 net tons; extended use of the Bessemer flame-control process could produce another 1,000,000 net tons; idle open-hearth and finishing facilities could produce 2,454,395 net tons; idle facilities for making concrete reinforcement bars (mostly in small, independent plants) could be used, releasing 500,000 tons of open-hearth steel capacity...
...Federal Trade Commission in recent years has seldom struck out. Of 4,942 complaints issued since 1933, it made all but 126 stick without court action, won all but five of its court cases for a net batting average of .999. But last fortnight the FTC was caught way off base, sent red-faced to the showers...
...famed net veteran will begin his exhibition at two o'clock up on the third floor. His schedule is uncertain, but he will undoubtedly demonstrate all of the shots in the game during the hour. Tilden's present barnstorming tour started a week age in New York...
...worst hit was International Telephone and Telegraph Co., caught off side in Rumania, Norway, France, etc. In 1930 I. T. & T.'s common sold for 77⅜, last week for 2⅞. With $108,105,000 of its $503,674,000 assets invested in Europe, I. T. & T. netted $7,039,000 in 1938. By 1940's first half this net was cut to a loss of $126,977 (before any provision for war losses on European properties). Before this report came out, I. T. & T.'s lanky Sosthenes Behn started to save...