Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldman then took a 40-5 lead in the next game, only to have his opponent rally to win. After missing four opportunities to win the tenth game and tie up the match, he slammed a forehand into the net to set a point, losing the match...
...walking contradiction to his own observation that "any man who becomes a producer is a damned fool." Two Bloomgarden hits of 1955 and 1956, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Most Happy Fella-also Critics Circle award winners-still have road companies going strong. "Together, the four shows net over $40,000 a week," grins Bloomgarden, "but, of course...
...Eastern railroads skidded (TIME, April 14). the Erie wheezed in with a quarterly deficit of $2.800.000. pared executives' salaries by 10%. Chemicals and paper companies continued to feel the pinch. For Union Carbide, second biggest U.S. chemical maker (first: Du Pont), the first-quarter net tumbled to 70? a share v. $1.18 a year ago. International Paper Co. sales slipped 10% for the quarter, and earnings will show a sharper drop. In appliances. Whirlpool's per-share earnings were almost halved to 25? a share. Admiral Corp.'s earnings also dipped, and Philco "will undoubtedly show...
...year ago). International Business Machines rang up record sales, and its quarterly profits soared to $1.98 a share from $1.78 for 1957's first quarter, when there were fewer shares outstanding. Revlon's earnings edged up slightly to a new record. Fast-moving Polaroid's net jumped to 31?, up from 22?. In tobaccos, R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) said profits were above the $1.25 a share of a year ago. P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber, riding the phenomenal rise of filter Rents, reported that January-February earnings soared by 400% over 1957's first...
...from $1,211,563 in 1948 to $4,270,650 in 1955, then slipped to $1,951,484 in 1956, $503,331 last year because of a heavy write-off on the F27. Going into 1958, Fairchild is still writing off on the F27, and will probably show a net loss for the first six months. But the company expects military and civilian orders to increase so fast during the latter half of the year that it will be able to show a new profit for 1958 as a whole. Once the writeoffs are finished, Fairchild hopes to race ahead...