Word: net
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respite caused by New Haven rains comes to an end this afternoon when the Varsity tennis team finally plays off its big one at Yale, followed tomorrow by a home match with Princeton that will wind up the 1948 net season...
Quick rescheduling, approved last night by the H.A.A., will mean that the net squad will face its two toughest opponents--Yale and Princeton--in successive days, since the windup match with the Tigers Saturday remains unaffected...
Another big factor on the Yale side is depth. Almost all of the Eli players are in keeping with previous post-war New Haven net strength. The Crimson, on the other hand, boasts comparatively little experience...
...bosses, Hawthorne suddenly turned his show into a carefree, wit-loose "Hellzapoppin on the air." Next day, before the station had time to fire him, the place was snowed under with fan mail. By last week, the scattyboo platter session was being broadcast over five Southern California stations ("the net-to-net coastwork of the Oh-So-Peachy-Keen Broadcasting Company"). Both ABC and Mutual were dickering for national network rights. Hawthorne's salary is now $450 a week...
Many another bigwig agreed with Price that the boom seemed solidly shored up by orders. Blaw-Knox Co. (makers of industrial equipment), whose net was up slightly, said that its backlog was "not only the largest in the company's peacetime history, but well diversified." Montgomery Ward, whose first-quarter profits (an estimated $24 million) were up 18%, said that its entire capital was "at work in the business" for the first time since September...