Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry this year passionately hopes to make such a verdict impossible. Millions of dollars-and thousands of individual careers-are at stake as the net works, film makers, admen and sponsors gamble seven nights a week to keep Americans glued to their 32 million TV sets. Like circus barkers pulling in a crowd, TV spokesmen shout about the wonders to come. They promise the finest opera, the best ballet, the most gripping drama, the newest movies, the funniest comedians and dozens on dozens of full-color, star-studded Spectaculars-a monster extravaganza planned to make U.S. living rooms jump with...
...petitions in House dining halls last night, recalled that it was during his freshman year that the 1-4 p.m. parietal hours were removed. At that time the Administration granted in return permission to entertain women up to 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. on Saturdays, but the net parietal loss was still 15 hours a week...
...magazine, Bride-To-Be, first published in July, has been left waiting at the church although Curtis Vice President Benjamin Allen said last week: "For a quarterly, it is going pretty well." Though Curtis lifted its gross 2% to $90,650,000 for the first half of 1955, its net profit tumbled 33% to $2,500,000. The drop, explained Curtis, was caused by heavier outlays for promotion, rising costs of production, and increased volume discounts to heavy advertisers. Curtis hopes that the changes will reverse the trend, send profits...
...shaky trunk lines need a direct Government handout. Though they still earn heavy mail pay, all nine of the biggest carriers (American, Eastern, United, T.W.A., National, Northwest, Capital. Delta, Western) are self-supporting on their domestic runs. Overall estimates are that the industry will tot up a net operating profit of at least $150 million in 1955 v. $99.5 million last year. As a result, federal subsidies have dropped from $73 million in fiscal 1954 to an estimated $52.5 million in fiscal...
Muir and Dumke then formed a brokerage firm to trade mostly in penny uranium stocks. Early last year they brought Light and his cash into the partnership, whose net worth now is $250,000. Their goal when they launched Muir, Dumke & Light was to get a Big Board seat within five years. "Now that we have accomplished our aim so soon," says Dumke, "we have the longest potential experience of any partnership in the country...