Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meter mark, the 'Cliffe had a length of open water. It brought the stroke down to a 33 and pushed the margin to three lengths over its nearest foe, MIT's A shell...
Grayson plans to compel big-product firms-manufacturers of automobiles or steel, for example-literally to refund any overcharges discovered in their records by paying back individual customers. Only one company so far has been dealt that fate on the basis of its profit margin: Houston's Browning Ferris Industries was ordered to pay back $40,000 to its customers within 90 days, as well as to reduce future prices by a total of $120,000. But Ford's decision to lower prices on its high-volume models, including its LTD, Maverick and Mustang, may well have been...
Though the company refused to make public its figures for U.S. operations only-the ones that will be used by the Price Commission-Ford's worldwide after-tax profit margin of 5.3% was its highest since 1968. Worldwide earnings for the first quarter of 1972 leaped 49%, to $252 million, over those in the same period last year...
...excess" profits. The accused profiteer was Godfrey Co., a food distributor headquartered in Waukesha, Wis., with annual sales of $126 million. Godfrey's troubles stemmed partly from the fact that its fiscal year ended in March: the commission figures that only a full-year profit margin can provide evidence that a company's excess earnings were not merely accidental and thus justify treble damages...
...also reported higher earnings-up 6.6%, to $651 million, from the first quarter in 1971. Though the company's worldwide profit margin rose to its highest point since 1965, G.M. officials said that the domestic margin was within Price Commission guidelines. As a result, they said, no, price reductions on G.M. cars are planned...