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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Solidarity Does It | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Montreal, Straus's sworn enemy, was running things. Straus had lost control of the company which, in seven meteoric years, had risen, with the help of razzle-dazzle advertising ("the $64 question"), from a $12,078 deficit to peak sales (1946) of $46 million and a $4.2 million net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Razor's Edge | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Wales. Lugging a 28-lb. tape-recording machine, greying Editor McPherrin, 51, took down the opinions of Britons in pubs and chemists' shops. He lost ten of his 155 pounds, never paused for sightseeing, and brought back enough material to fill the whole July issue of his magazine. Net observation: the Health Act, which went into effect just a year ago, is popular with most Britons but is bad for them. Britain, McPherrin concluded, has become "Welfare Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Welfare Island | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...must draw our inspiration from the tangible miracles of everyday life, from the iron net of speed that envelops the earth, from ocean liners, from dreadnoughts, from marvelous flights that plow the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lively Proof | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...picked up so much that many an airline (e.g., American, United, Capital and Western) which had losses in 1949's first quarter thought it had earned enough in the second quarter to wipe them out and show a profit besides. American, for example, might well show a net of close to $3,000,000 for the first six months, more than enough to offset its entire 1948 loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Happy Days | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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