Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department was audible all the way to Mao's palace. When MacArthur decided to warn publicly against the loss of Formosa, against "those who in the past propagandized . . . defeatism and appeasement in the Pacific," he was silenced by presidential command. By last week the net result of the U.S. action on Formosa had been to suspend the Nationalist sea-air blockade and thereby to open the ports of Red China for copper, oil and armaments from the West...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad reported a net of $11.9 million in the first ten months of the year, a 119% increase over the same period...
...Milwaukee has paid off all arrears on its preferred stock, has $25 million in cash, and this year will probably show a net income of $15 million after all fixed charges. The future looked so bright that Crowley announced a $2 dividend on the common stock, the first the Milwaukee has paid in 33 years. Obviously, shrewd Leo Crowley hoped that grateful stockholders, when they get voting power in May, would vote continuance of his regime...
...accused the old captain's heirs of using the holding companies to set up a "milking system" to pay themselves fat salaries while the line was drained of its assets. In addition, the line owed the Government $7,500,000, and $2,000,000 to other creditors. Its net current liabilities exceeded assets...
Right: Briggs limbers up on the trampoline, a canvas net stretched tight by many springs...