Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Employment Office would do little more, in its newly paternalistic position, than it now does to improve business methods, volume of sales, or net profit. Carefully screening applicants for selling positions, it would be in a better position to influence the hiring of new men. This is one of the big aims of the new policy because the Office fears that men whose selling ability outstrips their need will get job preference over those who are less effective salesmen but in worse financial circumstances...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
...score. But with fourth down and four to go and the ball on the Crimson 32, Brown kicked. This was the crucial decision, a bad one because there was little to be gained by a kick and the ball rolled into the end zone for a net gain of 12 yards...
...given 58 railroads east of the Mississippi (except New England) permission to charge 25? for every suitcase and 50? for each trunk a passenger checks through to his destination. (Baggage taken along by the passenger to his seat or bed room will not be affected.) FARMERS, whose estimated net 1953 income of $12.5 billion is 7% less than last year's, can expect about the same in 1954, predicted the Department of Agriculture. Prices of some farm products (beef, feed grains, wool) are expected to rise slightly, while production of most farm products will remain about at current levels...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp. reported nine-month earnings of $93.5 million, highest on record. Said Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "I do not anticipate anything like a serious falling off in business next year." ¶ Westinghouse Electric Corp. reported a record third quarter, with sales of $383 million and net of $17.6 million, up 1.9% from last year. Although retailers grumble that television sales are slow, Westinghouse announced that its television sales in September were up 216% over last year, while rKdio sales were up 499% for the month. Other radio firms reported similar results. Motorola Inc. sales hit a record...