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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barnaby's spirited captain and his number one man of last year, John Rauh, currently plays number three. Rauh also has a good serve which he generally follows to the net. Playing with the captain at first doubles is the fourth singles player, Alex Haegler. The powerful junior missed the spring trip and might have made the difference in the Navy match. Like the team, he has suffered from his late start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 5/6/1954 | See Source »

...matter of days, if not hours. Bidault discussed the possibility of the U.S. and Britain sending planes or troops. Both Eden and Bidault agreed that the best answer was the Southeast Asia pact, which only two weeks ago they had both viewed with misgivings. But such a pact could net be negotiated in the next critical few days. So the three turned to the painful consideration of what terms might be acceptable for a ceasefire. Dulles asked Bidault for assurance that the French would fight on in Indo-China at least until the Geneva conference got under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On to Geneva | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Many other businessmen were whistling cheerful tunes last week. Douglas Aircraft Co. reported first-quarter earnings of $8.9 million, more than double last year's $4.4 million, and voted a two-for-one stock split. Despite an 8% decline in sales, General Electric's net was up 42%, to $48 million, highest first-quarter earnings in the company's history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that G.E.'s profits for the entire year would be better than in 1953. For those whose earnings were down, the drop was usually less, percentagewise, than the drop in sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Spring Pickup | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...profit) operation to a more competitive unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Earth Mover | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Olivia herself soon succumbs to the spell of Mlle. Julie. The woman spreads her web for the girl, but even as Olivia is drawn closer, the audience begins to understand how Julie is caught in her own net no less cruelly than her victims are. She is a woman of spirit and of heart, a gifted teacher who desperately fights her own inclinations. The picture is never crass and only once or twice comes close to being explicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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