Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday), returned a handsome profit last year of $1,700,000 after taxes. Assorted other properties owned by the controlling World Publishing Company, including Omaha television station KETV, produced an additional net profit of more than $300,000. The paper also has $8,000,000 cash on hand...
...nemesis was Frankfurt's Dresdner Bank, one of West Germany's three biggest (the other two: the front-ranking Deutsche Bank and the Commerzbank, now third largest in Germany). Caught with heavy margin loans in the recent fall of the German stock market, Krages scrambled for fresh cash to protect at least part of his holdings, finally got it on harsh terms dictated by Dresdner. To fatten its own portfolio, the bank wanted Krages' shares in a major chemical maker called Chemie-Verwaltungs, A.G., and in Germany's biggest coal company, Gelsen-kirchener Bergwerks, A.G. With...
...British and foreign companies in the same field. Although Elliott's own designs are impressive enough that the company has sold to U.S. firms 20 of its "803" computers (price: $84,000 apiece), over 25% of its products are made under license from such U.S. companies as National Cash Register...
Time Out for Music. Bagrit himself attributes much of Elliott's rapid rise to the autonomy he grants his division heads-a habit that has stimulated prideful competition among them. This system has the added advantage of assuring Bagrit, who as a young man picked up spare cash by playing violin in the Royal Philharmonic, ample time to indulge his taste for music, art and philosophy...
...ship captain, how to pack the cargo was but one of many vexatious commercial calculations. Another was whether to throw ailing slaves overboard or not. If they had something really contagious, it was a good move. If not, it was a needless loss of one of the most profitable cash crops in history. Salable slaves were continually trying to starve themselves to death too. But for this at least, civilized man's ingenuity had a remedy-a caliperlike instrument called a speculum oris (i.e., mouth opener). Its pointed shaft was hammered between the teeth of the recalcitrant black, then...