Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warpath. He cried that Alaska, victimized by absentee government, was being gutted by an absentee industry served by seasonal labor. He urged the Territory to claim a bigger share of the wealth taken from its resources. He asked Alaskans to set up a general territorial property tax, corporate net income tax, a personal income tax which would tap the salaries of 12,000 migrant fish and cannery workers and thousands of other laborers who took their salaries to Seattle each autumn. He deplored the fact that Alaskans could not vote for a U.S. President, could not send Senators...
...Last week on Johns Hopkins' floodlit field, Baltimore's two unbeaten teams squared off against each other. The game they played was something like hockey without skates-with one big difference: the ball was not shuffled along the ground with hockey sticks but carried in a net on the end of a stick. The ball was scooped up first by a dark-jerseyed Hopkins man who cradled it in his webbed stick and bulled his way through Mount Washington's defense ring, plunging and twisting toward the goal. Around him he heard cries: "Ride...
...Federal Reserve Board announced that net profits of the 629 largest U.S. corporations were $22 million more in 1947's first quarter than last year's fourth quarter...
Last year, with Phil as executive vice president, the company's gross sales from forest products were $66,271,996, its net income $12,995,478. This year, earnings are "slightly ahead" of last year. Eventually, Phil expects that his new bark byproducts will add $10,000,000 a year to his gross business...
...liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading Pip Magazine...