Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...included under the new arrangement. In the past, a catering service has handled the refreshments and the Harvard Athletic Association hired ushers and program sellers. It is expected that the HSA-coordinated operation will allow some students to work at more than one job at the stadium, and net about $15 a game...
...toughness and organization. Equity rules now apply for Canadian theaters and off-Broadway productions. The minimum scale has risen 20% since 1952, and rehearsal salaries in the same period jumped 50%. Woefully outdated agency rules were overhauled for the first time in 30 years, and the union's net worth, just shy of $750,000 when Bellamy took office, now stands at $1,500,000. despite expenditures of more than $300,000 for a new headquarters on West 47th Street...
...year the introduction of nine new products, reduced prices to attract customers, planned a 67% increase in spending for capital equipment in 1958 over 1957. Said Percy: "We cannot believe in profits without believing in risks." Bell & Howell payoff: first-quarter gains of 21½% in sales, 23% in net earnings, 4½% in total employment...
Almost every Asian nation has grandiose plans for new roads, dams, industries -and little to pay the bills save raw materials. Owing largely to the commodity decline, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, its 16 Asian member nations had an aggregate net deficit of $2.1 billion for the first half of 1957 alone v. a deficit of $750 million for all of 1955. To make it worse, the area's share (excluding Japan) of world trade, which stood at 10.7% of the total in 1950, has now declined...
...other side of the dial was shown last week by Elgin National Watch Co., the nation's biggest fine watchmaker, which makes some 200 models in a $34.75 to $150 price range. For 1957, Elgin reported a net loss of $2,442,076 v. a $671,380 profit the year before. Sales were off 26% to $31.1 million, and President J. G. Shennan said solemnly that he could not predict "an immediate return to profitability...