Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...first line scored again at 17:05 when a barrage of players screened Flynn from a high, bouncing slap shot. The sharp Michigan sextet, playing with only ten men during the first two periods, added a third tally at 3:21 of the second period before the varsity could net its first goal...
Last week, on the slippery boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, Tony started fast in one more try. His big serve skidding and hopping, his net game vastly improved and his temper in check, he breezed to the finals of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor singles championships. In the last round his Davis Cup teammate, Ham Richardson, 21, made him work for the title. But Tony, 24, was equal to the job. After losing the long first set, 11-13, Tony unwound, ran out the match...
...flood of 1954 earnings reports poured in last week, there was no doubt about the sharp upturn in profits in last year's final quarter. General Electric Co. boosted its fourth-quarter net to $72 million, 46% over the comparable period of 1953 and 53% above 1954's third quarter. Despite a 5% decline in sales for the year, G.E. racked up a net of $213 million, up 28% from 1953, for the highest profits in G.E. history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that this year will be even more prosperous...
...rolling ahead. In January this year, Pennsylvania earned $1,658,066, v. a loss of $2,056,351 for the same month of 1954. The New Haven Railroad showed profits of about $1,000,000 for January, v. last year's $283,000 loss; Union Pacific reported a net of $5,124,261, an 18% gain over 1954, and Bob Young's New York Central reported a net profit of $3,082,934, v. a loss of $2,762,696 in January...