Word: nets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief of the groom, who had spent a hot & bothered week answering questions about his bride's and mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar...
This was two thumping billions more than Congress voted even in 1936, when it handed out the two-billion-dollar Soldiers' Bonus. It brought the 75th Congress' spending total to $21,656,174,000 for all three sessions. It shot the net deficit for fiscal 1938 (forecast by the President last January as $1,088.129,600) up to $1,250,000,000. For fiscal 1939 it forecasted a deficit of at least $3,722,000,000. It meant that the national debt, which stood at $37,379,410,474 on June 1, had a good chance of passing...
...Austria's imports have exceeded her exports. During the first four months of 1938, Austria's adverse balance was $7,600,000, an almost insurmountable addition to Germany's own $28,400,000 adverse balance for the same period. According to League figures, Germany's net imports of raw and semi-raw materials totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons more than she sold abroad, and Austria...
...Dumped a bucket of water on the dying embers of emergency railroad legislation. With carloadings at the year's lowest last week and 141 Class I roads reporting a $28,000,000 loss in March against a $24,000,000 net income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...
...Most famed Wall Street success during Depression I was that of Atlas Corp., Floyd Odium's tremendous investment trust. How Atlas is faring in Depression II showed last week in its semi-annual report.. Between Oct. 31, 1937, and April 30, 1938, Atlas' net assets dropped from $71,229,929 to $56,565,662, its common stock's asset value, from $13.36 to $9.44 per share...