Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition stiffens a little today for the Harvard tennis team, but hardly enough to send the Crimson quivering to the net posts...
...last week's N.Y. Stock Exchange close of $80.37½, Hughes will gross well over $500 million. In Wall Street's record books, the secondary offering will rank behind only the Ford Foundation's $658 million sale of Ford stock ten years ago. Hughes stands to net about $400 million on his original investment of some $90 million in TWA. What will he do with the money? Said one top Wall Street banker: "I hope he changes it into pennies and drops...
Missiles & Satellites. Often lost in the legend is the fact that Hughes has scored some remarkable business successes. He has increased his $16 million inheritance to a net worth of at least $1.5 billion. His Houston-based Hughes Tool Co. makes huge profits from leasing and selling drilling equipment, and from selling Hughes helicopters. California-based Hughes Aircraft Co. is a $300 million electronics firm that makes the Falcon missile and fire-control and electronic systems for fighter planes. On top of his TWA holdings, Hughes owns real estate in Phoenix, Tucson, and Culver City, Calif., that is worth...
...beat the international ban on Rhodesian tobacco, Smith threw a tight security net around the normally raucous auction sheds, cut prices and offered wildcat buyers guarantees of absolute secrecy. Gone were the chanting auctioneers, the throngs of spectators. Instead, armed guards turned away all unauthorized visitors, and the floors last week were empty except for a scattering of watchful officials and carefully anonymous buyers wandering through the rows of heaped leaf. There was no open bargaining; transactions were quietly conducted by government agents, and anyone caught leaking information about sales was subject to two years in prison...
...tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy return hit the net...