Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge of the table. While minding their manners, they suffered one of the few Japanese losses: the ladies' cup went to Rumania's defending champs...
...industry released the first batch of 1956 first-quarter earnings reports last week, it was apparent that, for the first three months, 1956 looked better even than record-breaking 1955. Steel led the field. Pittsburgh Steel turned in a $2,469,-624 net, 171% ahead of the same period last year, and Allegheny Ludlum earned $4,572,608, a handsome 92% better. Lukens Steel reported a 370% profit hike to $1,361,641, and President Charles Lukens Huston Jr. predicted that 1956 would bring the best sales and earnings in the company's 146-year history...
Containers were bursting with good news: a 25% profit hike to $4,420,000 at the Container Corp., a 56% net increase at National Container Corp...
International Business Machines netted $15,323,000, a record and 34% better than a year ago; St. Regis Paper also set a high, hiking its net 49% to $6,212,000, and announced capital expenditures of $43 million v. $11 million last year. Giant American Telephone & Telegraph set a record of $148,170,000 v. $128,618,653 in '55 and announced first-quarter capital expenditures of $470 million, 36% greater than last year...
...year. United Airlines revenues rose 11% over the $50,381,000 of a year ago, and President W. A. Patterson prophesied that revenues would rise 50% in the next five years. Chemicals reacted unevenly. While preliminary reports from Du Pont and Monsanto indicated profit declines, Dow Chemical's net advanced 38% to $14,282,841, and General Aniline's rose 90% to $1,450,000. Western Union reported a profit of $3,207,000, its best earnings in a quarter century...