Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forest Hills, N.Y., Lefthander Art Larsen (TIME, Sept. 11) over net-rushing Herbie Flam for the national tennis title, 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont over Doris Hart, 6-3, 6-3, to take the women's title for the third year...
...told, Gossard is selling more than 500 foundation items in "The Gossard line of beauty," including strapless bras and bodices and "mystifiers" (trade name for falsies). This year it expects to gross more than $10 million, and net more than its 1948 peak of $632,000. President Savard is convinced that the American woman is now sold on sensible foundation garments, fights shy of fads that try to squeeze her in or make her figure what it isn't. What she wants, said Savard, is "freedom with control...
...canneries and factories to produce textiles, chemicals, paper and industrial alcohol. At Kaohsiung and Hualien they built plants which produced about 10% of the Japanese Empire's alumina and aluminum. By the beginning of World War II, Formosa was exporting more than Turkey or Yugoslavia, returning a yearly net profit of $100 million to Japanese investors and the Japanese government, had an export balance in trade with both China and Japan...
...often gone nearly broke trying to get other people to see it." Last week the Tiger Line thought that people were beginning to see things its way. On a gross of $4,964,168, some 60% higher than last year, the line reported a $500,346 net profit (including a $183,500 carryback credit) for the fiscal year ended June...
After 20 games of give & take-mostly take-Schroeder made an antic gesture. Standing near the net between points, he bounced a ball against his head. The ball bounded over. Ted seemed to be saying: "Well, I can't get the ball over any other way.' McGregor won the first set, 13-11, then romped through two more, 6-3, 6-4, for the match. Since Sedgman had walloped an unsteady Tom Brown in an earlier match, the Australians, needing three-of-five to win, could just about crate up the old cup for shipment home...