Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present tuition increase will provide a gross gain of $580,000 in Princeton's income. A third of this sum, however, must be allocated to the scholarship program, so the increase will not force any student to leave for financial reasons. The university anticipates a net of $400,000 from the hike...
...DRIVE-IT" SYSTEM is being started by Greyhound Corp. in New York, Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland. By year's end it plans fleet of 4,000 to 5,000 cars in 50-city net, will permit driver to return car without extra charge to any city with Greyhound's rental service...
...Ticket Sales. In Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station a huge closed-circuit TV net (estimated cost: $400,000) is being installed to speed reservations and ticket sales. Each of 16 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket counters will have a 14-in. TV receiver with a dialing system. When a customer asks for reservations, the ticket clerk dials a code number that indicates his route, and the TV screen pictures a chart showing space available for up to 16 weeks ahead. Dialing another number then brings on a reservations clerk, who puts the requested tickets in an Intrafax machine that reproduces them...
RAIL INCOME SLUMP is stoking up demand for another freight rate hike. Despite rise in carloadings in 1956, higher costs trimmed net income of nation's Class 1 rails to $875 million, off $52 million from 1955. Eastern railways may ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for 15% rate boost on top of recent 7% emergency hike, Western railways for 17% raise in addition to recent 5% increase...
Then twice in the next three minutes the Crimson had the puck in front of the B.C. cage, with goalie Alvie Pitts on the ice to the side after making a save: twice an open net, and twice by some miracle no score resulted. This turn of events--the freak B.C. goal and two such narrow misses--would have broken the spirit of many teams...