Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came to life. The makeshift net added a fascinating new dimension to the old game. Battledore and shuttlecock, that gloomy day in 1873, became badminton...
That experiment in 1932 was man's first taste of nuclear energy, but it was like the quick-fading taste of a single grain of sugar. Since most of the protons missed their targets, the hydrogen-lithium reaction gave a net loss of energy, and no one knew how to improve its efficiency. Other reactions of light elements yielded theoretical energy too, but all of them were overshadowed by the wartime development of atom-splitting uranium fission...
...that she will get married and sooner or later quit work to mind her children. In Harris County (which includes Houston), only 109 nurses graduated in 1952. While some moved out of town, seven more moved in. But the county lost 111 by retirement, for a net gain of only five, while the number of hospital beds soared from around...
Glimmer of Hope. Sales at the picketed establishments are off an estimated 30%, but profits have not dropped proportionately because high delivery costs have been all but eliminated. (The Home Co. reported a record net...
High Profits? Why hadn't Young simply bought the Central stock himself instead of just putting up most of the money for it? His explanation was that the ICC has not officially recognized that Alleghany has divorced itself from the C. & O. But the net result of the deal was that Millionaires Murchison and Richardson are now in a position to make millions without taking a penny out of their own pockets. With the option of selling back the stock in six months at $25 a share (the price they paid for it), they cannot lose if it goes...