Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Standard Oil of New Jersey estimated that it would net $10 million less (about $518 million) than in 1951. Shell, with gross sales of $1,142,632,000, joined the select Billion Dollar Club for the first time, but its earnings fell 6% (to $90.9 million...
Metals. Phelps Dodge, the second biggest domestic copper producer, piled up the biggest sales in its history ($262.9 million), but netted 18% less ($35 million). Reynolds Metals' sales increased 9%, but net fell 7% to $14.7 million...
Rubber. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., biggest of the tiremakers, saw its sales top $1 billion for the second successive year, and its net bounce from $36.6 to $39 million...
Textiles. On 17.8% less sales, Celanese's net skidded from $24.8 to $9,200,000. Bigelow-Sanford's carpet business grossed 13% less ($67.3 million), and for the second year in a row it wound up in the red, though the loss had been cut from...
...passion for ideas, a faith in reason (as used by men of intellect), a dim view of organized religion, mutually known books and friends marked the common court on which they played out a tennis match of the mind. In time, they batted everything and everybody over the net, from Aristotle to Hemingway, from dentists to doorknobs, from Communism to the common cold...