Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry passengers past the lost continent of Atlantis; a graveyard of sunken ships; a miniature polar icecap; the first operable monorail system in the U.S., built at a cost of $1,300,000. The investment seems well worthwhile: in fiscal 1959, Disneyland expects some 4,600,000 customers, a net...
Clad in a flowing sports shirt as sign of his membership in a classless revolution, Lopez Fresquet turned up at his office and ended the joke. "I'm dead serious about this tax," he said. The law will discourage "conspicuous consumption" and besides, might net $5,000,000 a year. Cuban society editors, who have always collected an under-the-table fee for social puffs, will lose a profitable racket...
...people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume. But most hotels are still of mosquito-net, pre-Hilton vintage...
...Democrat last Feb. 21, no one really expected them to stay out for long. The strike issues-chiefly pensions and job security-scarcely sounded desperate or even irreconcilable. But the guild was well heeled and angry, and Sam Newhouse, with the paper closed down, was not taking a heavy net loss from day to day. Within a week the walkout turned into a bitter siege...
...traded in the open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted to buy, redeeming them when anyone wanted out at the net asset value per share on the day they sold (for M.I.T.: $14 per share last week...