Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper clients this week: "In eight Minnesota and Iowa counties, a third of the farmers I talked with, who favored Eisenhower in 1952, were changing, while others were still undecided. This represents a heavy enough swing for Adlai Stevenson to win both states [21 electoral votes] . . . The net picture is of a far more closely fought election than in 1952-with Eisenhower still holding the edge. It is an edge, though, which could be wiped out . . . It can perhaps be summed up as a struggle of the cities versus the farms...
...team's greatest depth is in the goal, where Elliott Finkelstein is first string, but not too far ahead of Jim Perkins and Arnie Singal. Finkelstein is not a showy net-minder, but has exceptional anticipation and a sure pair of hands, and may well be the outstanding goalie in the Ivy League this year...
...Civil Aeronautics Board put out a big net, and they got me, a herring. The barracuda is still swimming around." With these words, a $10,065-a-year CAB trial attorney, Albert Ruppar, 47, shrugged off his dismissal from the board last week for violating the rule that prohibits CAB employees from buying airline stocks. For weeks CAB had been trying to find the man who on Aug. 2, eight days before the official announcement, had tipped off Wall Street about the board's decision to award New England's little Northeast Airlines a lucrative New York-Miami...
...against Hoad in the finals, everything worked. When necessary, Ken found he could command the net himself. His long, flat drives flicked baseline chalk so often that overworked linesmen seemed to make more errors than he did. He pulled Hoad up with sneaky drop shots. He sent him scurrying toward the baseline after deft lobs that his beefy blond adversary seemed to have forgotten how to handle. He ran Lew Hoad off the slippery green court...
BIGGEST IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...