Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actor Coates did not show the ingenuity of the Cherry Sisters, famed in the early 1900s as "America's Worst Act." A net was spread for them in front of the stage to catch vegetables and eggs tossed by the audience...
Died. Maurice Evans ("The California Comet") McLoughlin, 67, hard-hitting pre-World War I tennis champ, who revolutionized the game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...
...after five months he told the Venezuelan government that he could do a better job without Fiat, had a reported $30 million ready to go to work. Fiat agreed to yield its share of the contract to Innocenti in return for a 2% commission on Innocenti's net profit. Last week 100 Innocenti engineers were at work on the millsite in Venezuela, and the scooterman's machine-tool plant was busy producing steel sheet-rolling equipment...
...more of the load because of the railroads' sharply falling freight business. Passenger losses ate up 52% of the Pennsylvania's freight profit in the first eight months of 1957, and 61% of the New York Central's. Says an official of Illinois Central, whose overall net is down from last year's $23.8 million to $16.5 million: "We've just got to sew up some of the holes in our pockets...
...delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit of $1,257,000 last year, another $1,248,861 deficit for the first nine months...