Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some distance offshore, Dr. Sasaki places a roughly V-shaped net. Inside the net, under water, he hangs a sealed-beam headlight bulb fed with current from a storage battery, the beam pointing out of the net. He hangs other bulbs, giving diffused light, in a long line toward the shore...
...next light. After a while Dr. Sasaki douses that light too. The fish move on, in a growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining light is the fatally attractive beam that beckons from inside the net. The fish swim in and Dr. Sasaki hauls up his net. In the cold light of dawn, the light-minded fish are headed for broiling (yaki zakana...
Scheme. Thus the founders already had a $9,825,000 paper profit on their $150,000 investment in Texas Eastern stock. The Brown brothers had made $2,800,000 in paper profits on their initial investment for stock of $42,750. They would net another $500,000 or so in profits, at cost plus, in constructing 21 compressor stations along the Inches. Geologist De Golyer's paper net was $1,000,000 on a $15,000 investment, Holley Poe's was $712,000 on $10,000. As for the eleven partners of Dillon, Read & Co., their...
...Crosley had made a fairly pretentious start in carmaking. He began making cars in June of 1946 in two plants -in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marion, Ind. By the end of his first year he had turned out 16,637 cars, for a gross of $12,073,721 and a net profit of $476,065. By expanding the company's two factories, Crosley expects to step up the rate of production from a current 2,700 cars a month to 3,000 early...
Captain Frenchy Brice of the Blue tallied the deciding goal when he dribbled through a couple of the Crimson defenders and crossed a shot into the corner of the net after two minutes of the second half...