Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to its brochure, "The corporation was organized to assist needy students in setting up small businesses to earn money to meet their college expenses." In its first year of operations the HSA will net approximately $35,000 in profits, to be distributed among 150 students...
...Back on His Feet." Oskaloosa's good fortune was not unique. The Central Iowa Farm Business Association completed its annual report on 153 representative farms, reported net income in 1957 averaged $11,200, or 32% over 1956's $8,467 and more than 2½ "times 1955's low of $4,235. For a national view, the Farm Journal polled its regional correspondents, found business noticeably better in every section except the Southeast, where row-crop farmers have been hit by weather and acreage cuts, but livestock and poultry farmers are prospering...
...drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize. Jämsä promptly mounted the orchestra platform, beckoned for silence, then whipped out his falsies and waved them triumphantly in the air. The contest has not been held since...
Fail Safe? Originally, said a Western spokesman, the pilots came in with 78 contract demands amounting to 2% times the company's total net profit ($2,400,000) in 1957. The demands were only window dressing for the obvious issue. When the company refused to go along with A.L.P.A.'s demands, the 263 pilots shut the line down almost completely, idling 2,103 other employees. Drinkwater defied the pilots by signing with the engineers' union, and sees no quick end to the pilots' strike...
...outstanding performer for the varsity. MacKinnon came up with twenty-eight saves, many of them on extremely difficult shots. During the second half he blocked a shot, cleared the ball himself and raced through nine bewildered Tigers to take a shot on the opponents' goal--a rarity for any net-minder...