Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael Arlen and Pd Rather Net by Osborne are fairly witty stories. Arlen started off with a meaty subject--Adolphe Menjou's resignation from the Ten Best Dressed List. For a few paragraphs Arlen's reminiscences are fine, but, regrettably, he continues with them long after they have lost their interest. Osborne's blast at Ripley's Believe It or Not is a good one-shot idea...
Hubbard knocked in a loose puck in the first minute of the final period after Greeley had soloed in, crashing into the goalie who came out of the net. Wheeler counted again at 5:48 for Brown when Crimson goalie Brad Richardson came way out of the cage to smother a loose puck, but let it get away. Clasby ended the scoring on a neat solo halfway through the period, faking Copp out, and tucking it in behind...
...Report Net Complete...
...faith in the expanding American economy-aided by the backlog of demand for goods built up during World War II-was more than justified. Last year Sears sold $2,777,277,096 worth of goods, more than twice as much as its closest rival, Montgomery Ward. Its estimated net profit was $113 million. Sears is now the sixth biggest corporation, in dollar volume of sales, in the U.S.* Besides its mail-order business, which is run from eleven plants, Sears has 691 stores in 47 states, Hawaii and four foreign countries...
...suppliers which is the core of Sears' operation and the key to its mass-merchandising success. He bought control or stock interest in 95 companies to get the goods he wanted at the prices he wanted. This bulk buying at lower prices gives Sears an average net profit of 6% on sales v. 3% for most department stores...