Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second semester champions will meet Grays, the first term champs, in a playoff contest next week. The winner of that game will net 135 points in the contest for the freshman intramural championship in all sports...
...flies the route regularly for the first time, the journey will have taken 20 years-with most of the progress made in the past five. In 1952 Continental was still an obscure regional trunk line serving a few Western cities. Today its routes cover nearly half the nation. Its net last year alone almost doubled to $710,426. When its first gleaming DC-7B sweeps down over Los Angeles, carrying coach-fare passengers in luxury style, Continental will become a major competitor in the nation's aviation network...
With just an average goalie in the cage for the Elis, no one could possibly guess what the score would have been. But Yale's Gerry Jones again performed incredibly in the nets, especially in the third period when practically the only defense the exhausted Yale team could throw up was to lie down in front of the net to stop the shots of the Crimson...
...reason for the consumer's confident spending is the fact that he is so well heeled. The U.S. Department of Labor announced that the net spendable earnings and the buying power of factory workers rose in January to record levels for the month (though still slightly below the alltime peak of December 1956). Though the cost of living is rising (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), millions of workers will keep up with it through automatic cost-of-living increases in their wage contracts...
...Europe's needs, shipped 20 million bbl. of crude, only 431,000 bbl. of gasoline. Asked the probers: Was the recent boost in crude prices made to protect the industry against a falling profit margin? Yes, said Rathbone. noting that Jersey Standard's profit percentage of net worth is slipping, dropped from 19.1% in 1951 to 15.8% in 1955. Though Jersey Standard's profits will rise $100 million in 1957 to $900 million, it must also keep pace with rising world demand. Expansion will take $3 for every $2 of 1956 earnings. "Our profits are big," said...