Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball arched lazily toward the basket from the side court and swished through the net. The crowd in the old Philadelphia Arena let go a roar that rattled the rafters. A shy, 24-year-old ex-marine named Joe Fulks had just assured himself of basketball immortality. He had become the first player in modern basketball* to score 1,000 points in one season...
...airlines, hit by a falling-off of traffic due to crashes and abnormally bad winter weather, had had one of the worst Januarys in their history They had been doing none too well before that. In the first eleven months of 1946, the U.S. airlines had shown an estimated net loss of over $900,000 v. a net profit of about $20,000,000 for the same period...
...Kennedy held the price line, picked up as many as 1,000 new customers a day until the other dairies dropped prices back. As a result, in a year the Association has climbed to seventh among Detroit's 28 dairies, and grossed $1,250,000 in 1946 (estimated net...
Kennedy still draws only $100-a-week salary. The milk drivers, who own their own trucks (jeeps proved too small), take care of their own overhead and get a commission of 5^ a quart. Some net $180 a week; the average: $100 a week...
...Cadets throw a lot of weight amound the rink in an effort to make up for a speed and teamwork deficiency, but their beefy tactics have yet to net them a Pentagonal League victory. Included in past debacles are 9-1 and 8-1 defeats at the hands of Yale and the Crimson. They have also lost to Princeton...