Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Panama Canal. In the reshuffle, all business functions, including ship transits, were put under the railroad's corporate charter, leaving only Canal Zone civil government to bureaucrats. The expanded corporation, called the Panama Canal Co., must pay the U.S. Treasury 1.95% on the Government's net investment-the only Government enterprise which by law must...
Long before the transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of a Japanese harbor to mine its submarine pens. For good measure, the movie tosses in a tense situation aboard the frogmen's destroyer (commanded by Gary Merrill), when Widmark and Andrews undertake the ticklish job of disarming an unexploded Japanese torpedo that has pierced the ship's hull...
...College carries out its program as it says it intends, it may be successful. The CRIMSON believes it will be. But the administrators and alumni now walking the tightrope should always remember that there is no one holding a net below them...
...went into bankruptcy again in 1944, at a time when its net profits for the four previous years were $117 million, highest in the B. & O.'s 120-year history. The railroad claimed it was forced into bankruptcy because it couldn't afford to pay its RFC loan. Senator Tobey charged that the bankruptcy was "collusive and irregular" because the road, with RFC's knowledge, had put on a poor mouth by juggling its cash. It had siphoned off $31.5 million to pay off bonds long before they were due, had underestimated its earnings for the following...
Most scoffers who had once called Communism in Hollywood a red herring were long since convinced that it was much more Red than herring. But last week, just in case there were still any skeptics left, the House Un-American Activities Committee scooped some more prize specimens, into its net...