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...names of the contractors in his report. The names were duly omitted, but leaked out later. Among the findings: at Rockwell International, actual labor costs on the B-l bomber were $15 an hour, but the final charge to the Government was nearly $200. Boeing's cruise missile markup was from $14 to nearly $114 an hour...
...demand. But some of the most popular models are in short supply, since Japanese manufacturers have agreed to quotas on their shipments to the U.S. That gives dealers a chance to make tidy profits. Kramer Motors Honda in Santa Monica, Calif., for example, adds a $2,000 markup to the $6,300 sticker price of the subcompact Honda...
...Deng introduced an "agricultural responsibility system," whereby China's 800 million peasants could make contracts with the state to sell a fixed amount of produce at a set price each year. After that level was reached, the workers could then sell any surplus to the state at a markup of 50% or on the open market at whatever price they could get. To swell production further, Deng hiked the price the government would pay for grain by 23%, while urging farmers to supplement their incomes by raising vegetables, poultry or pigs on the side...
...enormous disparity between manufacturing costs and selling price has led some users to accuse software makers of arbitrarily raising prices. In their defense, program producers contend that they are merely covering their costs of development and distribution, as well as providing profit for themselves and a reasonable markup for retailers. As in any new and fast-growing field, the competition that will force manufacturers to price products more realistically has not yet developed. When it does, the cost of software is likely to fall, perhaps sharply...
Odeon (366a Broadway) claims to undersell its Mass. Ave. competitors, with dresses at $14 to $18. "We'd rather take less of a markup on goods, and turn them over faster," says owner David Christina...