Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regiment armory, lingerie models gave buyers a peep at the industry's new look in lingerie. It was exciting enough to start wags chasing models (see cut). But the new taffeta ruffled petticoats (some designed to show an inch below dresses), teddies trimmed with a six-inch embroidered net design, and haremlike ankle-length pantaloons for sleeping were serious business to the lingerie industry. Thanks to them, it hoped to boost its sales up from 1947's record high of about $430 million...
...letting in some new air, the breeze has gotten a bit out of hand, and some of the trusted precepts on the desk near the window have been roughed up, there is normally a net gain. This is usually so, because good-will toward the aspirations of mankind is the most frequent hall-make of CRIMSON writers, and besides, it is more fun trying to run a good sheet than a mediocre...
...normally the most self-confident man in the game-had learned to respect his rival. Said he: "I've had to change my game, of course. I like to stay back and wait for the ball but now I have to come up to the net after the serve and meet Jack's attack. Jack's ahead and he's a tough player but I ... still expect to come out ahead." For cocky Bobby Riggs, that was a decidedly modest prediction. With 50-odd matches still to go, the score in matches was Kramer 6, Riggs...
Enough for All. Judged by profits alone, moviemakers had done superlatively well in 1947. The estimated net of $100,000,000 was down from the alltime peak of 1946, but it was still far better than in any peacetime year. Some companies that had been on thin ice a few years ago were now on solid ground. Last week, Cartoonist Walt Disney reported that on his gross of $6,619,912 he had netted $307,075, his best ever. (He had not even taken into consideration $450,000 in blocked foreign earnings...
...president. He had rebuilt its rickety trackage, spent $100 million for new equipment and other improvements, and sent 20 streamlined Rock Island "Rockets" flashing over its new, heavy-ballast rails. The war boom which helped all railroads had mightily helped the Rock Island. During the last seven years its net profits were more than $80 million...