Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with the rest of the country. The Soviet Union has promised Nepal a new hydroelectric plant and factories for refining sugar and making cigarettes. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. are rushing to get into Katmandu first with a fully staffed embassy...
...Net effect has been to increase the very problem-unemployment-that Castro promises to attack through land reform. As Puerto Rico, Brazil and other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far have scared off the capital that builds factories. Last week, deeply concerned that for the masses his revolution is coming to equal joblessness. Castro announced that during the next six months he will spend $135 million on public works to build roads, parks, bridges, schools and hospitals...
...ways to catch the inhabitants of the depths of the ocean. One under study is a disk several hundred feet in diameter, with floats around the edge and ballast in the center. When it reaches a predetermined depth, the ballast will be detached, and the floats will pull the net upward. As it rises, it will inflate with water just as a parachute inflates with air, scooping up any giant squid and sea serpents...
...first musical arena-theater tent at Lambertville, although " 'tent' was one of the few four-letter words you didn't use in the theater." To Broadway's surprise, he cleared $20,000 his first season. This year Terrell tentacles will scoop in $900,000, net...
...very high (46 times earnings), Texaco knows that the reason is due to a curious bookkeeping quirk. Superior charges off all drilling costs in one year against overall earnings, rather than amortizing such capital expenses against individual properties over a period of years. By shifting to standard accounting, the net per share would double, and the price-earnings ratio drop to about...