Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, the world can use loans and relief money from the U.S. to help pay for American exports which cannot be swapped for imports. All told, the loans and relief will swell the $7.6 billion from U.S. imports to nearly $14 billion. Thus, at the present rate, the net export-import deficit of foreign nations which will have to be made up from hoarded savings will be between $4 and $5 billion. That is nearly one-quarter of the $20 billion in gold and U.S. dollars held in the world outside...
Over the years, Saskatchewan wheat farmers had spent many a sleepless night worrying how to meet the mortgage. On an average, they had to net $12 an acre before they showed a profit. In 1927, they averaged $18.91, but in 1932 the yield skidded to $4.76, which spelled wholesale defaults and forced sales...
...Japanese competition. But of the 12 million prewar Japanese spindles, 2.5 million are now operating, thanks to shipments of 900,000 bales of cotton owned by the Commodity Credit Corp. Some 90% of the cotton goods is being exported to 26 textile-hungry countries, is expected to net $40 million to be applied against occupation costs...
...grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young man, he dived for an A.M.G. life net, later sported a U.S. uniform while his old pals were marched off to jail. When the Americans moved out, Dario became a Communist...
...comparative scores are any indication of how a tennis match will go, the Varsity net squad should be almost hopeless underdogs to Yale when they meet this afternoon at the Soldiers Field courts...