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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brawny line of the University of Texas threw the verdict out of court. In a roaring affair at Austin that seemed to settle the Southwest Conference championship, Texas not only gave the Methodist Mustangs their first defeat of the season (23-20), but tossed their running plays for a net loss of 68 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the Land | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...housing boom, now being choked off by the new credit controls, had proved a bonanza for many a supplier. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., whose rug sales had slumped last year, managed to increase its net an incredible 30-fold from $61,500 to $1.9 million by merely doubling its sales. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., which boosted its nine-month net six-fold to $4 million, declared an extra dividend of 50?. So did American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., biggest in the plumbing fixtures trade. American Radiator's net hit an alltime high of $17.7 million for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Crest of the Wave | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...biggest in U.S. industrial history, surpassed last year's total in the first nine months alone. But the higher corporate taxes (42% v. 1949's 38%), which were retroactive to Jan.' i, took such a big bite (roughly $50 million) that G.M.'s third-quarter net of $217 million was below the second quarter. G.M. set another record: its $605 million tax set-aside for the first nine months of 1950 was the biggest tax bill in corporate history, and more than the total profits of the entire U.S. steel industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Crest of the Wave | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Morale. Recently, however, Romanoff's has fallen victim to its own social standards. Profits, which hit a peak of $87,000 seven years ago, have slipped. This year, Romanoff expects to net only $16,000, chiefly because of rising overhead and the fact that bar revenues, which once accounted for 50% of the gross, have tumbled. The reason: no one wants to drink at the bar and be branded a nobody. That is particularly true when choice empty tables are marked "reserved." Says Mike: "It's very bad for the morale for one to walk past those empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike's Place | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...intercollegiate committee for the evaluation of American college teaching methods will be net up by the National Student Association. The group will concentrate on: curriculum evaluation, honor system, and social contact between student and faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Requests College Study Investigation | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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