Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most New Yorkers, she is for modifying Prohibition. She is "sporting" and hearty. She has said: "Politics seems to me to be like a game of college football," and, "When I play tennis and lose, I make it a point to get to the net first to congratulate my opponent." She is so charming that James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried...
...unlikely that Tilden cares either way: there are thousands to be made in professional tennis, not a little to be made in exploiting his reputation. Thus, without honor, passes the man who for six years dominated world tennis, who for eight years wielded a sceptral "bat" over the American net game...
Outstanding among exceptions to the rule of prosperous, optimistic midyear statements were the balance sheets of U. S. automobile tire companies. Sales figures, if not exuberant, were satisfactory. But income figures were disheartening. Net income of the "biggest" Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. dropped from $6,364,005 (Jan.-June, 1927) to $3,074,200 (Jan-June, 1928). For B.F. Goodrich Co., a profit of $5,813,501 turned into a deficit of $1,574,889. Fisk Rubber Co.'s huge deficit...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.-both young and brilliant players. Allison, making beautiful shots and then staggering blindly, had been within one point of victory. After that, he was in hopeless condition; Van Ryn took the 20th game of the fifth at love. Allison walked up to the net, told Van Ryn he was going to retire, went into the locker room, collapsed...
Memorable, last week, was the midyear statement of American Locomotive Co., made public by Chairman William Hartman Woodin, recent Smith convert. Net profits for the first six months of 1928 were $1,502,702, as against $2,485,784 in 1927. "Locomotive buying," said Chairman Woodin...