Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...net result of the inadequate reorganization was not only the enormous deficit but also the complete deterioration of the MTA's rolling stock; 80 per cent of the equipment is over ten years obsolete. The best innovations that the MTA can afford are the slovenly changes in those select trains on the Cambridge-Dorchester line...
...There is . . . between employers and workers a reciprocal bond . . . which only blind and unreasonable despotism would attempt to break. Employers and employees are not irreconcilable antagonists . . . They eat at the same table because . . . they eat and live out of the net national profit...
After their long political catnap, the Conservatives were at last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
Miracle of the Seed. Farmer Pfister (rhymes with Easter) is the biggest U.S. individual grower of hybrid seed corn. This year his six-year-old Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. will gross about $1,500,000, net some $60,000 to $70,000, which Lester...
Then came the rain, which wetted down the dust but also reduced visibility, and--worst of all for lacrosse players--began to contract the gut cords which make the "net" of the lacrosse stick. The Varsity fortunately got three more goals before this shrinking effect made it difficult to catch the ball...