Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Japan launched the Greater East Asia War, Negishi, a skilled mechanic who had saved a little money, decided to go into business on his own. Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
Lifting Gloom. Writers and actors were also grousing. In Variety, Scripter Carroll Carroll wrote: "Perhaps the pump has to be primed by the government... Oil has tax advantages. Aviation has subsidies. Why not offer similar inducements to throw heavy money into...
Scornful of high-priced chefs ("they'll get you over a barrel for money and when they leave they take their recipes with them"), Dobbs turns out cooking instructions which are so detailed that almost anyone, including himself, can make his dishes...
Though many airports are still clamoring for his service, Jimmy Dobbs has bigger & better plans-to supply meals to railroads, which usually lose money on dining cars. He is closing a deal with one road to supply its meals much as he does the airlines' and he is dickering with several others. Dobbs figures that he will be able to serve better food than railroad passengers now get, and at the same time cut diner losses at least in half...