Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a five-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan on the plight of the waterfront. To lay a basis, the commission first cast its subpoena net into a school of neatly groomed waterfront businessmen-heads of stevedoring and shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever...
...quarter-final match, Seixas, despite recurrent attacks of hay fever, whipped young Rosewall in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Two days later, facing Australia's "Big Fellow," rangy Ken McGregor, Seixas was a whirlwind. Rushing the net behind one of the biggest services in the game, Seixas took just 58 minutes to knock McGregor right off Melbourne's Kooyong courts. Again it was in straight sets...
...expansion are over, argues Shaw, the corporation must hang on to what it has. It is the money man who can best squeeze out the last penny of profit, notably by knowing all the tax angles. Says Shaw: "A new accounting procedure [for taxes] . . . will contribute more to our net earnings than the total profit we'll make from one of our smaller factories...
...remaining events, the Crimson's prospects are better. Bob Twitchell and Rittenburg far outclass the visitors in the hurdles, while Twitchell teamed with Herbie Collins and Charlie Arena should net the Crimson at least a first and a second in the sprints...
Sellers and distributors want the nickel or so profit they can pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can hardly blame them. Profit and not principle is their bread and butter...