Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diameters and more. Light is a train of waves; to pick some tiny body out of the unseen, the waves must find it big enough to get hold of. If the body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...
...pocketbook than a year ago. Unlikely is it also that so much money can have gone abroad. Travelers in these days probably carry more cash than formerly, but travelers are fewer. Considerable amounts of money may have been sent abroad by mail. U. S. currency exported by banks (net) amounted to $117,000,000 from January 1939 to August 1940, but $680,000,000 is still to be accounted for. Best bet seemed to be that some of the missing money had disappeared in all these ways, most perhaps abroad...
...replace felt, an oil compound that gives transparency to one-piece window envelopes, etc. Small but sound, Scientific boasts a record free from layoffs, pay cuts, labor trouble. In its last published statement (1936) it reported earning $42,202 on sales of $2,671,868.41. This year it will net around...
...years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying on any excess at all (Big Steel's 1939 net income before taxes: $54,095,000). Philip Morris, on the other hand, earns far more than 8% on its capital, would normally choose the base-period option. But because it has forced its way into the big money in the last five years, its average net income...
Britain is scheduled to buy 40% of U. S. plane production for the next two years. If Britain falls, the industry will still have its hands full with domestic orders. But British orders yield 20 to 30% net. Although the Vinson-Trammell profit limitation on Army and Navy plane orders is being repealed, U. S. Government contracts will never be as cushy as that. Nor can investors envision a peacetime market for planes anywhere near the present demand...