Word: net
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure Albert Pierrepoint would be flattered by your statement that he is 45, and, in fact, he looks no older. But he is 50. Not so flattered is the Empire News and Sunday Chronicle when you quote its circulation as 1,961,230. The audited and published average net sales show a circulation of 1,994,311 in July-December 1954 and 2,532,540 in December 1955. The circulation is still rising...
This left the match up to Harris and Junta, and when they dropped the first set, 6-3, to Moore and Meyer, the prospects of a Yale upset became eminent. However, Harris' beautiful return of serve and fine net play and Junta's crushing service started to coordinate together, and the Crimson duo proceeded to annihilate the Yale pair, 6-3, 6-1, in the final two sets...
...long before the response was even better, comparable to Johnnie Ray or Frankie Sinatra, with girls snatching Presley's shirt, belt, shoes, and RCA Victor buying out his recording contract for $35,000. Elvis now nets $7,500 a week for personal appearances, will net more than $100,000 this year; he owns three Cadillacs and a three-wheeled Messerschmitt, plus a dazzling wardrobe...
...president of International Harvester at a special meeting of the directors, replacing John L. McCaffrey, 63, who becomes board chairman but remains as chief exec utive officer. McCaffrey's five-year term coincided with the sharp farm-price drop during which the giant farm-equipment maker's net fell from $63 million in 1951 to $55 million in 1955 while other U.S. corporations were setting earnings records. New President Moulder is an old hand at Harvester; he joined the sales division in 1910, became first chief of the company's motortruck division in 1944, moved...
...second novel (her first: the widely praised Under the Net), Author Murdoch plays ducks and drakes with a madding crowd of English characters who have not fared well in the welfare state, members of that middling class of drab London sparrows who were brought up to think of themselves as hummingbirds and now lack the sugar for their special diet...