Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Britain were showing their dissatisfaction with Churchill's six-month-old Tory government. In a new wave of local elections, the Labor Party won control of 101 borough councils and cut sharply into Tory majorities in many others. In the past month, Laborites have gained a net of 546 local government seats; the Tories have lost a net of 501. Far from panicked by the trend, the Prime Minister took the occasion to announce that he was buttressing his cabinet for "three or four years of stable government...
...sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million, a net...
...product, and delivered it by wheelbarrow to local drugstores. He built a sizable Pittsburgh business, moved to Florida, and, in 1931, took over the management of Foremost. By expanding into new markets, he boosted sales 50-fold (to $53 million in 1951), has more than doubled Foremost's net (to $1,508,493) in the past five years alone...
...Yardling net team will also journey to New Haven to meet the Elis this afternoon. Coach Corey Wynn reported. "I think we've got a good fighting chance, but Yale is very strong...
...notable exception: Chrysler Corp., which managed to boost its net 41% (to $18.8 million) despite an 8% drop in sales and a 373% jump in taxes. Chrysler said its better net resulted from higher OPS prices and an $85 million drop in production costs...