Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Weekly, once a big moneymaker, cut editorial staffs and trimmed costs all down the line. But this was not enough. Last week Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. gave a measure of the chain's financial trouble in its earnings report for the first nine months of 1954. Net loss: $1,266,500 (v. a profit of $1,552,400 for the same period last year), biggest loss in the company's history...
...started the frozen-orange-juice boom. Minute Maid grew into the No. 1. U.S. frozen-orange-juice company, with 30% of the market and 1953 sales of $36.4 million. Morse sold National Research's interest in Minute Maid, but he still retains a royalty agreement that will eventually net National Research more than $5,000,000 on its total research cost...
...stopped before they develop. A basic need on the ground is long-range radar equipment, a high-cost item that only a small percentage of U.S. airports now has. CAA's proposal: connect airport control towers to the Air Force's long-range radar warning net, which is already in operation near most big U.S. cities. While there are still some technical problems to be worked out, CAA is confident that a way can be found to use Air Force radar without interfering with defense...
...most out of long-range radar, VOR and DME, better communications are needed between ground and air. The airlines want a more complete net of Government-built communications control stations, enabling airports to talk directly with pilots several hundred miles away (maximum range in most places is now 30 miles). With such new radar, DME and communications equipment, the airport control tower at La Guardia could pick up a plane an hour out, slow it up if necessary, reserve a landing time and guide it to a straight-in landing. By thus eliminating stacking, much wasted air space could...
Republicans did amazingly well in the Solid South. They held on to their only seat in North Carolina, retained two of their three places in Virginia, and upset Democrats in Texas and Florida. For the region as a whole, therefore, the G.O.P. showed a net gain of one seat...