Word: nets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listed in the national ranking, not seeded in the national tournament, a young man named William Aydelotte charged to the net in Manhattan last week and chopped the line drives of Julius Seligson into the corners. Each won two sets. In the second game of the fifth set Seligson twisted his ankle, limped, made an ugly face, sat down, got up, went on playing, limping. "Not that will aid a lot" punned the crowd, but critics noted that J. Seligson's game had slumped before his ankle, applauded Aydelotte as he went on to win the fifth...
Alexander Legge, president of the International Harvester Co. of America, (farm implements, wagons, tractors, trucks) announced a net profit for 1927 of $23,359,215 (1926 profits amounted to $22,658,891); prophesied that "the company's future in the present 'power farming' era seems secure...
Frederic Winthrop Allen, chairman of the Vanadium Corporation of America (vanadium & alloy for use in the manufacture of steel tools and cutlery) reported a net income of $1,849,240 (previous year: $1,980,031); revealed that the corporation "has already developed over 100 chemical compounds and stands prepared to furnish these compounds to the trade...
Last week, Mr. Hays anticipated his cross-examiners with a statement which raised the "maximum" of Sinclair's contributions to $260,000 and the actual net of his gifts to $160,000. Mr. Hays tried hard to explain what looked like, yet may not have been, flat perjury. The explanation was this...
President Magnus Washington Alexander of the National Industrial Conference Board declared last week to a Cincinnati audience of the National Metal Trades Association that one-ninth of 1% of the corporations of the U. S. (95 in number) made a net income in 1925 of $5,000,000 or more apiece, and that the total profits of these 95 corporations accounted for 44.5% of the industrial net income of the nation. The other 89,579 U. S. corporations divided up the rest of the nation's industrial profits. The 95 corporations earned 25% more in 1925 than...