Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces battered and blackmailed their way into Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, last week. The city's fall put the Communists astride a rail and road net to north & south, east & west. The "North China People's Government," recently proclaimed by the Reds, became a reality...
...were plenty of signs of the boom's end, he told the Mortgage Bankers Association in Manhattan, "in the slackening rate of increase in spending, in the slower rise in prices and wages, in the halt of the increase in bank credit, and in the drop in the net export surplus...
...pointed out that his competitors, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., now have 50% of the aluminum ingot market. And they are finding it profitable. Permanente, producing 20% of the U.S.'s basic aluminum, last week reported twelve-month sales of $69.6 million, a net of $9.2 million...
...biggest scientific fish in Communism's net, outside Russia, is British Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Last week Haldane's scientific colleagues were watching closely to see if he would cling to the party line, recently clamped around some very dubious genetics (TIME, Sept. 6). Most scientists suspected that Haldane would have to go back on either his Communism or his science...
...Little, higher productivity had suddenly become very necessary. With the slump in textiles (TIME, Aug. 30), he was beginning to find it difficult to sell some of his products. Although Textron's net profits have jumped to $3,805,000 in the first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products...