Word: netting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with parachutes) behind Polish lines, where they reconnoitred, reported back to their army via small, portable radios. Poles captured them right & left, gave 'them short shrift. Over bombed Warsaw, the Poles erected a poor imitation of London's "balloon barrage," claimed that a German pilot got caught in the net...
...Fish left together in groups get to know one another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies...
...stores, President Guth fizzed up its sales until by the end of 1935 he was able to report a net for the year of $464,000. Loft filed suit for his 237,500 shares (91%) of Pepsi-Cola stock, contending that it had been bought with Loft money, developed with Loft resources...
...year-old Walter S. Mack Jr., a director of Loft, became president of Pepsi-Cola Co. When he looked into the books which Mr. Guth had previously kept well hidden, he found a thriving business. For the first nine months of 1938 Pepsi-Cola had turned in a net profit of $2,700,000; its stock was selling at $70 a share (it is now $190). (For the same period Loft lost...
Meantime Pepsi-Cola had become the No. 2 cola drink of the U. S. (next to Coca-Cola). For the first six months of 1939 Pepsi-Cola had turned a net profit of $2,500,000, an increase of 76% over its booming 1938 figures. Last week President Mack ventured to say that for the first eight months of this year net profits would pass record 1938 (when the net was $3,240,000). Still selling far below big Coca's bottle volume (the trade's best guess: 18-25% of it), Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce...