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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce (". . . casting a net around Harvard-Yale Andover Exeter Groton Amherst Williams in Doe speramus.") is appalling...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Four men are batting for the three attack positions. Pete Franklin, who scored twice against the varsity in a scrimmage before vacation, plays roamer. Shifty Gus Palacios is usually stationed behind the net as feedor. Norm Hatch and Bitsy Grant, Lawrence's high scorer last year, cover the crease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Lacrosse: Parking Lot Practice | 4/11/1950 | See Source »

...best management is generally the cheapest in the end, wrote Loeb: "The total of top management salaries is at worst a very small percentage of net income; but the mistakes of corporate officers hired purely on a low-price basis can be a very high percentage of net income, or even eliminate any net income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Best Is Cheapest | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...this move Ed Carter hopes to step out ahead of other West Coast retailers. Though Broadway's gross was down 5.6% in 1949, its net of $1,243,202 was up 7.3%. Ed Carter hopes to move them both up this year. His next objective: to pass Bullock's, which rang up $106 million in sales last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Young Man of Promise | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...putting himself in the customer's shoes-and giving the customer what he wants-Ling Warren has helped expand Safeway Stores Inc. into a grocery chain second only in dollar volume to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Last year Safeway rang up a net profit of $14.4 million, highest in its 24-year history, even though gross sales of $1 billion were down 7% from the year before because of a reduction in food prices and the number of Safeway stores. But Warren doesn't intend to let the gross stay down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Customer's Man | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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