Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landing Net. Whatever else Young's purchase of I.D.S. might mean, it did illustrate how his Alleghany Corp. has been expanding into other fields and greener pastures. Since early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares...
...largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying a big net...
...last two doubles matches provided the closest competition. In the number two contest Reese and Bramhall lost in three sets, as their smashing net game couldn't overcome the steadiness of their rivals. But in the number three doubles, the net game of Bacon and Hatton was good enough to beat Bowdoin's Tiny Taussig and Dick...
...Harvard Theater Workshop opens its 17-day run of "The Tempest" tonight at Brattle Hall with a benefit performance for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund. This evening's net will be the first income to reach the fund started last week in order to bring visiting lecturers on the drama to Harvard College...
...Seixas' cannon-ball or looping-spin serves don't score aces, he quickly forces a crisis with his smashing forehand at the net. When he bangs an overhead shot more often than not it's the end of the point...