Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first seven months of 1966 have had 25,250 men killed-more than three times the number of allied combat dead-and lost another 15,000 in prisoners and defectors, the latest intelligence reports put total Communist troop strength in South Viet Nam at 280,000, a net increase of 50,000 since January...
...capital totals $148.2 million, almost three times that of its nearest competitor, Bache & Co. The vaults in Merrill Lynch's headquarters on Pine Street (two blocks from Wall) contain $13 billion in negotiable securities. In all its transactions last year, the big brokerage house grossed $228 million for a net profit of $30.8 million. More than ever, it fits the name that Wall Streeters in awe and envy bestowed long ago: "The Thundering Herd...
...final reports trickled in, U.S. magazine publishers totted up their best half-year profits ever. For the first time since 1961, Curtis Publishing reported a six-month net profit of $368,000; ad revenues were up 18% on the Saturday Evening Post, 20% on the Ladies' Home Journal, and 40% on American Home. Time Inc. continued to pace the industry with a record net income of $17,730,000, up $4,095,000 from the same period in 1965. McGraw-Hill Inc. was in second place, with a net income...
...Luftwaffe's problems have been compounded by its NATO-assigned mission: to fly under the Soviet radar net and toss 100-kiloton U.S.-owned A-bombs on tactical targets. Such a mission calls for great skill in low-level flying, the most dangerous altitude for speedy jets. Germany's poor weather has made learning the art especially hazardous...
...pretty quaint to recall that Franklin P. Adams said: "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...