Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through providing jobs, the Student Employment Program plays a very important part in the financial aid program. The Office of Financial Aid estimates that the average regular or "priority" job nets 350 dollars per year, representing ten or twelve hours of work per week. Summer jobs can be expected to provide at least an equal sum. About 250 freshmen each year are offered "priority" jobs before they get to college, usually as part of a Scholarship grant, but sometimes because they need the money and have not won a scholarship. Casual jobs may net students with some useful talent...
...happily, was the farmer's income. After four years in the fever-land of falling income-in part induced by price-depressing surpluses-the farmer has reached a turning point. His condition is better and his prospects are good, reported Department of Agriculture economists last week. Realized net farm income is up 4% over 1955 and should rise an additional percentage point next year...
...net rental income at the same rate as other forms of business income...
...governors, 27 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans before the election. Of the 30 state houses contested this year, 14 were Democratic and 16 Republican. The Republicans dumped Democrats in West Virginia. Ohio and New Mexico; the Democrats routed Republicans in Massachusetts. Iowa. Kansas, Oregon and Washington. Net Democratic gain: one. Still undecided at week's end: Rhode Island...
...steadfastly brushed off his family's insistence that he go to college. (He finally went, stayed a quarter, then quit.) He pushed a soil-conservation program, fenced the farm, terraced the land and planted good, soil-building cover crops; soon he had a well-managed farm with a net worth of $17,145. Said his old teacher: "He's not an exceptional fellow, but he's eager to learn and determined to be the best farmer in the whole country. For its size, his farm is one of the best-run anywhere...