Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upturn which began last fall was duly reflected in the first crop of fourth-quarter earnings reports. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. reported a fourth-quarter net of $125,840,000, up $4,880,000 from third-quarter profits. For all of 1954 A.T. & T. showed a net of $480 million, a fat 12% above 1953's profits...
...brought a new trick to desert fighting. Between lines of trucks he strung electrified wires, then drove the sword-swinging Senussi horsemen into the electric net. He rounded up 80,000 noncombatant men, women and children, and put them in concentration camps. In pursuit of the Senussi he sent "flying tribunals," which tortured their captives, hung them in bags from tall trees and dropped them out of airplanes. When Senussi Chief Omar El Muktar surrendered and asked for the status of a forgiven enemy, Graziani had him shot as a bandit...
After nine months as boss of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Patrick B. McGinnis last week made his first year-end report on the state of the road's health. Despite a $1,152,606 net loss before he took over in April, said McGinnis, the New Haven wound up 1954 with a net income of $9,000,000. As a result, he would be able not only to pay off $2,400,000 on the New Haven's income mortgage bonds, but also to hand stockholders a welcome dividend: $1.25 for preferred shareholders...
...exploitation of public resources seem to be in great danger. At face value, the President's proposed $101 billion highway construction program seems commendable, but it is far less so if it results in curtailed federal aid for hospital and school construction. The nation already has an adequate highway net; but it does not have ample mental hospital facilities...
Inaccurate shooting, bad luck, and fancy goal-tending by Huskie goalie Bill Lawn had prevented the varsity from scoring until early in the second period, Lawn had 22 saves in the first period alone as the Crimson did everything but put the puck in the net, even with a two-man advantage at one point...