Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors Corp. is, among other men and things: 386,000 stockholders, who drew $159,497,902 in 1939 dividends (from $1,376,828,337 in net sales); lively, wiry Board Chairman Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., whose 750,000 shares paid him $2,875,000 (in 1937); four Du Ponts-Henry B., Henry F., Lammot, Pierre-who dominate the board; 220,434 workers in no plants, 14 States (Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Washington), who earned $386,292,203 last year; grey-red, hulky President Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen...
Meanwhile the noisy and fickle Chamber, which came within one vote of upsetting the Reynaud Government just before Germany invaded Scandinavia, followed the sober Senate's lead last week in toto, voted confidence in Premier Reynaud 515-to-0. This was a net gain to the Premier of 237 votes since his first and last time...
Although George Hanford played a good net game and Doug Anderson made five assists, there was no real individual starring. Instead, the game was outstanding for its mud and its 12 penalties on each side...
...staggered into South Station laden down with the necessities of his annual Spring fishing trip. Disposed clumsily and loosely about his person were two fishing rods, a tackle box, a landing net, a small overnight bag, and a fishskin-bound volume of Izaak Walton. Before running the gamut of redcaps waiting eagerly to receive him, Vag stopped to reflect. Six parcels meant he would have to pay the porter sixty cents -- a rather stiff assessment coming so soon after his last weekend in New York...
...what she sees in Spain on the eve of Civil War, in Vienna after Anschluss, in Paris as an exile, it is actually a series of very moderately intelligent travel and political notes, held together by stock characters, decorated by eroticisms, seasoned with high-school cynicism, anger, iconoclastic irony. Net effect: like a drugstore translation of the Decameron by Weber & Fields...