Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern California, Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was having good fishing with a new kind of deep-sea trawl. Its mouth is held open by a broad, V-shaped steel beam that acts like an airplane wing in reverse, making the net dive downward while giving it unusual stability. It can be towed at six knots, instead of the two knots which is top speed for ordinary trawls...
While lawyers were holding transatlantic conferences over her divorce demands from Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth turned working girl again (at $252,000 a year plus 25% of the net profit on her pictures) and checked into Columbia studio for her first chore: five hours of color-camera posing for magazine covers...
...much do doctors make? Not as much as some people think, according to doctors themselves. This week the Department of Commerce had the figures for 1949: that year U.S. doctors (excluding interns and full-time teachers) averaged $11,058 net. The figure was based on doctors' replies to a questionnaire, sent out jointly with the A.M.A. Key groups...
...semifinals he met his old nemesis, Herb Flam, who had beaten him twelve times (but not this time, though the match went to five sets). In the finals, Savitt met Australia's McGregor again. Savitt knew how to play McGregor: keep him away from the net, but avoid lobs, which McGregor usually kills with savage precision...
...uniform tax, said Seidman, would merely restore some balance to the U.S. tax system, now top-heavy with individual and corporate income taxes, which have shot up much faster than excise taxes. Under the proposed new bill, said he, direct income taxes taken altogether would constitute "83% of net budgeted receipts compared with 78% last year and 50% in 1939 . . . Under this new 'fair deal' ... a man reaches the zenith of his financial success in life when he can retain $23,502.50 out of an $80,000 income. After that he can keep a nickel out of every...