Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WINTER 1958. President Eisenhower and Presidential Science Adviser James Killian set up a panel of scientists to determine whether a worldwide net of seismographic, acoustic and other equipment could detect a violation of any U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement to suspend tests. Named to head the panel: Cornell University's Dr. Hans Bethe, an acknowledged expert in the detection field...
...stores scattered where only one-third of the population lives. It invests only 2½% of product sales in advertising, well below many of its competitors. But last week greying, handsome President Justin Whitlock Dart, 51, announced that the firm's first-half sales were up 8%, net profit 26%. This year's volume should come close to $180 million and earnings should pass $5,000,000, the best in Rexall's 38-year history...
Khrushchev's real net: he was turning lukewarm about a chiefs-of-state meeting at the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council-"You know very well ... it has not decided anything so far"-instead preferred private talks. Khrushchev's guest list: the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain, France, India, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Places to go: New York, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Moscow...
Second-quarter corporate reports last week showed that some industries hardest hit by recession were recovering their earning power. Steel profits were up over the first quarter; secondary companies still in the red were trimming their deficits. Westinghouse Electric reported, along with increased net, that June orders were the highest of the year. Oil companies, squeezed by depressed prices and increased costs, were still showing skidding earnings. But tobaccos were still riding high on price increases and the popularity of filter tips. General Motors, only one of the Big Three to stay in the black for the quarter, thought...
India recognized the new regime in Baghdad, but Prime Minister Nehru was repelled by the bloodthirsty manner in which it came to power. Nehru-who is no lover of Nasser-was reported disturbed by Nasser's maneuvers to cast his net over the entire Middle East, for the Middle East is India's lifeline to the West...