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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuition Goes Up to $1,200 At Princeton | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Crimson Sextet Wins Holiday Tournament | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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