Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something for Fishermen. To get it, most of them had joined the fingerling Fishermen's and Fish Handlers' Union. Three months ago the union demanded that the "lay" (split) of each voyage's net profit (i.e. net after deductions for various operating costs) be changed from the traditional 50-50 lay to 60% for crewmen, 40 for owners. Also demanded: a redivision of operating costs...
...come, said the report. Property which cost $12.5 billion has been disposed of for about $2.2 billion, a gross yield of only 17.5 percent. But after charging off selling costs, and the bigger losses it will take on the less desirable surpluses left, WAA "may end up with a net loss...
...when Kramer and Schroeder (twice U.S. doubles champions, in 1940-41) teamed up against Bromwich and Adrian Quist, it was Schroeder's day again. Even though he made winning shots look difficult where Kramer made them look easy, it was Schroeder who carried the load with his smashing net game. That clinched the Cup for the U.S., for the first time since 1938. Another two-man U.S. team, Big Bill Tilden and Little Bill Johnston had taken the Davis Cup from the Australians in the same way 26 years...
...went into receivership in 1931. In 1940 the Donner Estates picked up the hotel and its mortgage for 12? on the dollar. But lately the Mayflower has been grinding out tidy profits as regularly as it has had to say "Sorry, sir, no rooms left." Its estimated 1946. net...
...expect, and the majority of industrial detonations produce tremors too small to do any damage to nearby dwellings. By use of a relatively new instrument, the Leet Portable Seismograph, actual measurements of the intensity of industrial vibrations at varying distances from their source have been made. The net result has been of great value to the blasting companies and quarry-owners who, up to the present, had not known just how much damage their blasts have done...