Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dynamics subsidiary, Canadair, has the exclusive contract for building F-86 jet fighters in its Canada plant for the R.C.A.F. Since Canada has no excess-profits tax, this contract has proved so lucrative that Canadair alone contributed 70% of General Dynamics' gross of $134,500,000 last year (net: $4,900,000). Thus, Jay Hopkins, a man few know, has become boss of a major North American armament complex...
...Willys Motors, will operate the plants, while the original Willys-Overland Motors, having transformed its property into cash, will continue as an independent investment company. As with any other investment company, stockholders who want to redeem their stock will ultimately be able to cash it in for the $17 net asset value (nearly $2.50 more than its market price after the merger...
...large enough to cripple or even devastate this country . . ."At present, the Alsops went on, U.S. defenses against such an attack were so inadequate that they "really amount to no air defense at all." To remedy this situation, the nation must follow the Project Lincoln blueprint: "An early-warning net must be thrown around the almost inaccessible northern fringes of the hemisphere . . . All the parts [of the warning net] must automatically guide the defenders to the attackers . . . Fighter air bases and guided-missile launching sites must be arranged in echelons, from the air frontier to the American industrial heartland...
...hospital, giving A.O.U.W. policyholders a priority on its beds. In March 1951, when the insurance order's list of patients had dwindled to only one, the A.O.U.W. sold the building to the state for $110,000. Reporter McCoy discovered that the A.O.U.W. had reported its net from the sale at $11,000 less than the state paid. The point of his story: Where...
...hand at a likeness from memory. Spread over three columns, the result (see cut) appeared in the Stalin memorial issue of Les Lettres Françaises, Communist art and literary journal. Gibed the London Daily Mail: "Note the large, melting eyes, the tresses apparently done up in a hair net, and the coyly concealed Mona Lisa smile; it could be the portrait of a woman with a mustache." Two days later, the party Secretariat announced that it "categorically disapproved ... of the portrait," added: "Without doubting the sentiments of the great artist Picasso, whose attachment to the cause of the working...