Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity sailing team, led by Bill Saltonstall Jr., won the M.I.T. Invitational Sailing Competition yesterday to retain possession of the Geiger Memorial Trophy for the second year. The Crimson piled up 98 points, an 11 point margin over second place M.I.T...
Airmen could tell the story in six minutes. With costs up 45% since 1945, profit margins have slipped. U.S. airlines made only 4.6% profit on a $1.3 billion gross in 1956. Last year the margin skidded to 1.6%, and T.W.A., Northeast and Capital fell into the red with combined losses of $8,700,000. This January and February the industry's overall losses jumped to an estimated $12 million v. $400,000 in the same period last year...
...that by the time red-taped CAB gets around to deciding on a fare boost, so many lines may be in such serious financial shape that they will have trouble competing. Though the industry recently got an interim 6.6% fare increase, it will only boost the 1958 profit margin to 2.6%, far less than is needed to pay for jets. Domestic carriers still need $600 million, but simply cannot make the healthy profit needed to attract bank financing. Wall Street is just as cool to equity financing: common stocks of the twelve lines are selling at 64% of book value...
Dudley won over Kirkland by a 7-2 margin and Eliot shut out Winthrop, 4 to 0. In the final contest of the evening, Dunster trounced a hapless Leverett team...
...Frondizi's margin swelled, he kept a wary eye on the military leaders who had risked everything to overthrow Perón. With perhaps a faint quiver of the upper lip he announced: "I have no commitments to anyone, and will govern solely for 20,000,000 Argentines...