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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain was locked in a death struggle with a foe long familiar to the U.S., and even more deadly in densely settled Britain: the traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Traffic Jam | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Many stockholders are baffled by splits; they think that a 2-for-1 split doubles their money. Actually a stock split does not of itself increase the stockholders' equity at all. The new shares are based on the same corporate net worth, thus are technically worth precisely half the old. Sewell Avery, former board chairman of Montgomery Ward, long opposed splits, sneered at them as "two hat checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK SPLITS: An Old Way to Make New Friends | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...tall young man from Tennessee's Maryville College stared at the girl across the net and served viciously. The ball came back. For the next 30 minutes his best drives kept coming back at him with maddening regularity. He began to net his returns and overdrive the baseline. At last he ran up to shake the hand of his conquerer: the University of Chattanooga's Marilyn Voges. The score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beauty at the Baseline | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beauty at the Baseline | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...economy's transition from recovery to boom was underscored last week by first-quarter earnings from the nation's two leading steelmakers. Top-ranking U.S. Steel Corp. reported a 9.9% return on sales for a net of $106.6 million, or $1.86 per share, up more than 70% from $1.04 per share for the first quarter last year. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second largest producer, doubled its first-quarter earnings per share to $1.06 from 52? last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Base of the Boom | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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