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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Island's Congressman Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the G.O.P. House campaign committee: "A net gain of 30 seats in the House for Republicans ... If indicated widespread resentment" against the Administration develops, "Republicans will capture the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: About 1/4 Inch | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Ketchikan and Sitka, and out of Juneau, the capital of the territory. Under the armed forces' new strategy for defending Alaska, the U.S. was coiling its strength-its winterized jet fighters, its cadres of weather-wise pilots and its supporting Army troops-into one tight defense net in the Alaskan heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKGROUND FOR WAR: Alaska: Airman's Theater | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Pretty Picture. To nobody's great surprise, the television set makers made one of the prettiest profit pictures. Radio Corp. of America, the biggest U.S. set maker, netted $12.4 million (v. $3.9 million in 1949), and its nine-month total of $33.3 million exceeded any full year in the company's history. Ross Siragusa's mushrooming Admiral Corp. more than tripled its net to $5.2 million for the quarter...

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

Almost as spectacular were the coal companies and the railroads, both hampered last year by a coal strike. Pittsburgh Consolidation, biggest U.S. coal producer, more than doubled its quarterly net to $4.2 million. Pennsylvania Railroad, which like all railroads reports monthly earnings, said that in September its net hit $4.4 million, v. a $2.8 million loss a year ago. One freight booster: the Korean...

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

...companies had also felt the effects of Korea. Because Standard Oil of California's net was 50% above last year's (at $46 million), its directors declared an extra dividend of $1. The Texas Co., whose net of $41 million was almost one-third above last year's third quarter, was going to mail out an extra $1.50 to its stockholders...

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

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