Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Readers Dietrich & Deutsch take a longer look at the diagram. The arrow shows the direction of the rocket's flight to Venus, not the direction of the takeoff. Since the earth moves 18.5 m.p.s. and the rocket is fired in the opposite direction at 8 m.p.s., the net speed of the rocket is 10.5 m.p.s. in the direction of the earth's motion...
...flour (twice as much as its nearest competitor) and processing one-fifth of all U.S. dry breakfast cereals, General Mills did a gross business of nearly $300 million last year. Yet, despite the best efforts of the Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, its net profit was only $7 million...
...Hope has also launched Hope Enterprises on its first ventures. A personal-appearance tour poured $500,000 into its coffers (net before taxes: $200,000); an independent movie, My Favorite Brunette, for which the stockholders put up $100,000 and the banks $1,000,000, will be released next March. Hope Records is now spending $25,000 to make recordings from Hope broadcasts. Hope's income from the broadcasts, $10,000 a week, along with money from his other noncorporate activities-part ownership of the Cleveland Indians, two pictures yearly with Paramount, etc.-goes into his pocket...
With the issue thus neatly ticketed, Britons braved an icy drizzle to vote in last week's annual municipal elections. The result was a smashing victory for Labor. In 223 cities and towns of England and Wales, socialists registered a net gain of 159 local council seats...
Jaakko is still uncertain about sending entries to the big IC4A meet in New York in two weeks. The Crimson's showing in the Heptagonals will probably decide the issue. Outfought Harvard Rutgers First downs 10 13 Net gain, rushing 180 194 Passes attempted 11 15 Passes completed 2 6 Interceptions 1 3 Gain by interceptions 11 110 Number punts 6 6 Distance punts 204 147 Average punts 34 25 Runback of punts 22 5 Number penalties 2 6 Yards penalized...