Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drugs for the mentally ill are causing a revolutionary change in New York's 27 state hospitals. For years, admissions have been increasing at a rate of 3,000 annually. Now the department of mental hygiene reports a 19% increase in discharges and expects a net drop in admissions. Reason: mentally disturbed patients are being treated earlier and more effectively with the drugs chlorpromazine and reserpine (TIME, March 7). Many illnesses are being arrested or alleviated so that the victims do not require commitment...
...palm to the man who has rammed 4,000,000 cars down the throats of helpless dealers, putting many of them out of business, gone farthest toward bankrupting the country with credit sales of unneeded cars at extravagant prices and got safely away with a boasted billion dollars of net profits...
...Nicholson, 53, moved into the presidency of Liquid Carbonic Corp., largest domestic producer of carbonic gas and dry ice (1954 net sales: $51 million), succeeding William A. Brown, who resigned last month after control of the company passed to a stockholders' group. Texas-born, Nicholson has been successively a cattle dealer in Amarillo (1910-24), a construction superintendent in Tacoma, Wash. (1924-37), assistant administrator of the Federal Works Agency, Western Division (1937-44), since 1945 president of Pacific Tractor & Implement Co. of Richmond, Calif...
...film begins as the clipper sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
During the evening Pancho bounced his racquet on the floor, hit and kicked the ball into the stands, indignantly had the net measured, berated the ballboys, and, incidentally, dropped an exciting tennis match to Tony Trabert...