Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity took the lead in the opening period. Although solo rushes by left wing Bud Higginbottom and center Dick Fischer during the first minute failed to net a goal, the third line tallied the second time it ventured onto the ice. Dave Crosby took two B.C. players into the back boards and Stu Forbes fed behind the cage to Crocker Snow, who skated around from the left side and after goalie Jim Logue had committed himself to the near corner shot into the far side...
Some retail prices edged upward in December, among them used cars, fuel oil, fresh vegetables and beef, but the ups were more than balanced by the downs-new cars, gasoline, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, movie admissions, women's clothing. Net result, as reported last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics: after creeping up to the alltime peak last November, consumer prices slipped downward a little in December to pare the BLS consumer price index two-tenths of a point, to 123.7 (the 1947-49 average: 100). Price forecast for 1959, as most economists see it: renewed upcreep...
UNITED AIR LINES, not hit by strikes, almost doubled its net earnings in 1958 to record...
...Result, in the statistics that look wonderful on a boardroom chart: Kent's domestic sales zipped from 3.4 billion to 36 billion a year; Lorillard's stock went from 15⅛ to 89; Lorillard sales jumped from $203 million to close to $480 million in 1958; net income rose from $4,519,758 to an estimated $28.5 million; and Lorillard moved from a lagging sixth among companies to nudge Liggett & Myers for the No. 3 spot in U.S. tobacco sales...
...net result of these reforms--and in some respects they are most worthwhile--cannot yet be clearly gauged. Only one statistical piece of evidence has so far been submitted as proof of the growing stature of the academic spirit. The intentions of the Class of 1958, polled prior to graduation, revealed that sixty-five per cent more of '58 than of '57 planned to continue academic training at graduate schools of arts and sciences. Nearly ninety per cent of the best scholars in the class planned to study for a Ph.D. degree, intending presumably to go into college teaching...