Net Thrust

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“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

““I sawe Phoebus thrust out his golden hedde,
Upon her to gaze:
But when he sawe how broade her beames did spredde
It did him amaze.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)