Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking you who she is, net how she is," protested 'Theodore P. Allegretti '47, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, when initial returns to the Club's "Miss Juno" contest gave the shapely maid the worst of it in comparisons with the Black Dahlia, Ann Corio, and Mrs. Pruneface...
...Department predicted a bumper 1947 wheat crop of 1,240,000,000 bu., compared to 1,185,000,000 last year. Despite 14 million more mouths than before the war, per capita food consumption in the U.S. had increased 16%. In 1946 the U.S. supplied the world with a net of $6.6 billion of goods and services, but this was only 3.4% of the total value of goods & services produced by a comparatively fat and wealthy land. Far from scraping the bottom of the food bin, the U.S. was only spooning out its resources...
...however, Larry Bell, 53, was not an undisputed leader. They had been satisfied with the way Founder Bell had built up the company from virtually nothing in 1935 into a major producer of war planes and equipment. They were pleased when it emerged into the postwar period with a net worth of some $19,000,000, delighted when Bell voluntarily slashed his salary from a peak of over $100,000 to $55,000 a year...
...house lifted into the air, "hung there, and shook like a fish net being dipped out of water." Then the funnel lifted, and roared off to the northeast. White Deer had been lucky; only three were injured...
...tanbark. There are the Idalys, he riding-upside down-a monocycle suspended from the roof, while she hangs from his teeth and does acrobatics. And there is Harold Alzana, who climbs up a half-vertical taut wire to reach the high wire, and then (blithely scorning a net) skips rope upon...