Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Legion task force mopped up around Oued Zem. Under Colonel Fran-gois Boreill (who led the fine French battalion in Korea), 4,000 or more Legionnaires, supported by two tank companies, drew a tight steel net around the Smala tribal area. After two days of bitter fighting in the barren, rocky uplands, Boreill closed the net. Soon afterwards, he spotted a band of Berbers approaching his command post, waving white flags...
...lists himself as "baritone" by occupation, has offers of more work than he could do in 20 years, and seems pleasantly certain to pay income tax for 1955 on something close to $1,000,000. Moreover, his new success spreads like a Hoboken cargo net across almost every area of show business...
...other well-known lines, e.g., Catalina swimwear (which claims to be the world's biggest swimsuit maker), Fruit of the Loom hosiery. Last week, still pulling itself up by the garters, Kayser agreed to pay $13 million for Milwaukee's thriving Holeproof Hosiery Co. (1954 net: $1,157,984), one of the biggest U.S. lingerie and stocking manufacturers. The merger, Kayser's sixth in one year, will make it the world's largest producer of lingerie, stockings and women's accessories. Solidly in the black, after six years in which sales plummeted from...
...record, by Perón's own accounting, is mediocre at best. Gross national product climbed by about one-third between 1945 and 1954. But meanwhile the population increased from 15 million to 19 million, so that the net per capita gain amounted to only 10%-an unremarkable showing for a decade in which many Western nations raised their living standards by a good deal more than 10%. (U.S. gain: about 18%.) The index of industrial output rose from 76 in 1945 to 100 in 1950, but at that point stagnation set in: last year the index was still...
...RAILROADS will have one of their best years since World War II. First-half earnings for 126 Class I roads are up nearly 80%, totaling $416 million v. $232 million for the same period in 1954. Prime example: the Union Pacific Railroad, whose first-half net of $35.5 million is the highest in history, some 16% higher than the previous record...