Word: nets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine was too big for them to develop with their limited resources. They sold the Happy Jack to Barlu Oil Corp. for a price, based on the mine's production, that may eventually net them $30 million...
...reserves. Its gas sales are up from some 5.4 billion cu. ft. in 1930 to 645.4 billion last year; its net income has climbed from $282,500 to more than $12.3 million. It has made itself ready for expansion by drilling and then capping gas wells all over the Southeast. Yet not even this is enough for quick-thinking Kayser; things seldom move fast enough for him. "Sometimes," he once confided to a friend in a quiet moment, "I go over and take a trip through Carlsbad Caverns and think. 'This wasn't built...
...younger men that promotion is a little less attractive than it used to be ... When a promising young business executive decides that he won't try for the $64,000 question, when he decides that he isn't interested in becoming production manager because the increased net just isn't worth the extra effort and strain, then everyone is the loser...
...major invention, a plastic that filters the glare out of light rays. During World War II, Polaroid Corp. did a $16 million-a-year business making glare-proof gunsights and sunglasses and other products for the armed forces. But by 1948 gross sales were down to $1,481,372 (net loss: $865,256). Land's camera snapped Polaroid into the black again (1949 profit: $720,795) and kept it there...
...movies in depth, it was soon making 12 million pairs a month, grossed over $26 million that year. In 1954, when 3-D dwindled and died, Polaroid was doing so well with other products that profits stayed up over the million-dollar mark. In 1955 Polaroid will probably net close...