Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final round 5-3. Needing only one set to win, Bostwick jumped out to an early lead at the start of the final day. During a volley for match point, he drilled a hard shot at the grille. Willis managed to get his racket on the ball, but his return soared out of bounds. Game, set, match and world championship to Bostwick. After a gentlemanly handshake, the new king of the court packed his bags and left for the French Amateur Championship, where he will pursue the more simple sport of golf...
...American military history. There were corned beef scandals during the Civil War, and the West was won partly on padded Government contracts for shot, powder, rifles, bully beef and hardtack. Today's excesses can hardly be blamed on defense-industry "profiteering." While U.S. industry's overall return on investment rose from 7.1% in 1967 to 10.1% last year, the defense contractors' profits have dropped from an average 10.1% to around...
...Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...
...eighth Trenchard hit safely and reached second owing to Whittemore's muff of Corbett's throw. Ward then knocked a hot liner to Winslow, who made a beautiful catch and, running to second, reached there before Trenchard, who had started for third, could return...
...market value of general investments in June, 1966 was $974 million. So the usable rate of return established by the Corporation was actually more like 3.5 per cent. Yet this figure doesn't even approach the return the Treasurer is really receiving on his investments. According to both Treasurer Bennett and President Pusey, Harvard's investments net about 10 per cent a year computed on their market value. This figure includes both dividends and interest and value appreciation on the market...