Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savings and loan associations and, as a consequence, their rapid growth: the fact that most savings and loan associations pay little or no federal income tax, whereas the commercial banks of the nation pay the regular corporate income-tax rates, which run from about 30% to 52% of the net taxable income...
...might see such a move as revenge. But even his third-party nuisance value is doubtful. The hard core of McCarthy's following-the group that not even Joe can drive away-probably contains as many Democrats as Republicans; a McCarthy candidacy would not result in much net loss to either party...
...Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, Carrot checks all aircraft reported by the regional radar and observer net (including Mother Goose). Carrot identifies planes through flight plans, airfield reports and other means, including IFF ("Identification Friend or Foe,' electronic gadgets emitting special signals). No plane can remain unidentified for more than two minutes-the maximum is fixed by General Chidlaw's order-without the air controller at Carrot ordering a jet scramble...
...Generally, the defensive system is too thin. Only the Northwest and Northeast are defended in depth (fighter bases covering New York extend north to Labrador). Elsewhere, the jets might scarcely have time to make their pass before the attack reaches target areas. Eventually, as the arctic radar net is spun, other bases may be built in the Far North so that attackers would have a longer, more lethal gauntlet to run on their...
Nevertheless, right down to their final act of betrayal, the moviemakers are sensitively loyal to most of Greene's transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the nature of pity; but it is at least a cruelly beautiful picture of a man who made a sin of saintliness...