Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kroger Co. Then Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., makers of truck trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold to $3,000,000. After Trailmobile was sold to Pullman, Inc., for $41.5 million, President Bunker got the call from Glenn Martin...
Jinx Cleaves tallied a slightly tainted second-period goal to give the Tigers a three-point bulge. Attempting a passout from behind the Crimson net, the Tiger wing banged the disk off the back of goalie Brad Richardson's leg. The puck rolled softly across the goalmouth, and plopped inside the far post...
...breeding. He put up an $8,000 laboratory, opened seven retail outlets, started a 15-minute weekly television show to plug sales of breeding pairs, and waited for the green stuff to come in. Last year, says Donovan, it came in to the extent of $325,000, for a net...
...less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high as 6,000,000) for pelting...
...Net Result. On the shores of Lake Overholser, Okla., after the public was invited to watch a team of seiners ridding the reservoir of undesirable fish, 20,000 Sunday motorists jammed all roads leading to the lake, prevented the fishermen from getting near the water...