Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...net of the wringing-out was that policies in the making were more surely based because of their political testing. When the U.N. passed resolutions at week's end designed to get the Israelis out of Egypt and to give Israel more security by deploying the U.N. Emergency Force in some of the borderline areas (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.N. approach had more chance of success; more than 50 nations supported it. On Capitol Hill President Eisenhower, stung by the attacks on Dulles, helped the Middle East doctrine through the Senate by saying in effect that...
...title and made him a Davis Cup hero were as polished as ever. But all Rosewall did was set things up so that Pancho could move in for the kill. Behind his big serve, Pancho's long legs and long reach always got him to the net in time to put the ball away. Little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ken was forever trapped halfway, pecked to death by shots that snicked at his feet. Pancho covered the court with that extra grace that made everything work, and at both Wellington and Auckland he won in a breeze...
...founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer in the low-and medium-priced fields (first: International Shoe...
Some profit pictures were much brighter. Oil-industry earnings were pushed up by heavy demand arising from the Suez crisis. Sinclair's net shot up 13% to a record $91 million in 1956. Socony Mobil estimated earnings at $250 million, up from $208 million in 1955. Shell Oil hit $135.8 million, for an advance of $10.3 million...
...Lewis is an Oxford and Cambridge don who has long been an apostle to the well-educated agnostic. To scoop unbelievers out of the waters of doubt into the net of faith, Anglican Lewis uses all sorts of urbane literary lures ranging from Platonic debate (The Screwtape Letters) through self-confessions (Surprised by Joy) to Gothic-romantic fictional allegory (Perelandra). This last category, to which the present book belongs, displays Lewis at his most difficult...