Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room, the show seems gay and sexy, but when seen close up, the picture dissolves into the depressing details-forced smiles, smudged and sweating faces, bruises under torn net stockings...
...financial structure of the debt-ridden B. & O., notably alter a clause requiring that a $23 million bond issue be paid up if the B. & O. merges. After that, he intends to push for complete merger of the C. & O. and B. & O., which would create a vast railroad net rivaled only by the Pennsylvania in assets ($2.3 billion) and surpassed only by the Santa Fe in track mileage (11,000). Eventually, Tuohy sees a huge, unified rail system in the East. Says he: "This opens the sluice gates. Wait till we get this merger squared away. I have other...
...work of Allsopp's manatees was so dramatic that planters and irrigation officers all over British Guiana demanded some of this free labor for their own ditches. Allsopp encouraged fishermen to net the harmless beasts gently (despite their 8-ft. length, manatees are easily bruised or drowned) in the jungle rivers, and he rigged a laboratory truck with a sort of canvas bath to carry them to the ditches. He now has 31 at work, happily chewing water weeds throughout the colony, and 65 more have been ordered from the fishermen. Inquiries about manatees as ditch cleaners have come...
Vows Jungle Jim : "They'll get triple their money's worth." From the size of the native thirst, he will pay off his land next year, net...
...Chicago Gaslight was so successful that Browne opened another club in Manhattan in 1956, a year and a half later opened a third in Washington. Membership in the three clubs is now more than 48,000, and altogether they are expected to gross about $4,000,000 this year, net their stockholders more than...