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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slots of amiable selling robots. In this laudable endeavor, Coca-Cola has been uncommonly successful. It is currently selling about 50 million Cokes a day all over the world-enough to float a light cruiser. Last year, the Coca-Cola Co. took in nearly $128 million (leaving a net profit of nearly $38 million, a third of it from foreign business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...edited so that it "won't turn your stomach at the breakfast table." (An early slogan for the Times was: "Will Not Soil the Breakfast Table.") In the Times, bodies are never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Moral Support. In Ottawa, Ont., after calmly balancing on a narrow bridge railing 100 ft. above the icy Ottawa River, Francois Michaud explained his nonchalance to rescuing police. "God," he announced, "is my aerial net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Taylor, who comes from New Haven, plays the most spectacular game on the N.C. squad. His quick, aggressive play, coupled with decisiveness at net, mean that few points ever develop into baseline rallying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Will Oppose North Carolina Here Today | 5/4/1950 | See Source »

...Levoy, film producer, attorney and a founder of Republic Pictures Corp., had gotten back his original investment on a venture in which movie men had expected him to lose his shirt. More than that, by making 52 movie shorts (15 minutes) for use on television, Levoy now stood to net an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foot in the Door? | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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