Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that circulation alone can turn the trick, with no help from advertising revenue. In its 30 progressively successful years, the Digest has run not one line of paid advertising in its domestic edition (9,500,000 copies). This year the Digest should gross between $25 and $30 million, and net about...
...Future? In ICC's Washington hearing room, Paul J. Neff, MoPac president and chief operating man for the road's court-appointed trustee, took the stand to answer the question. His answer: no. MoPac's net profit, he agreed, had hit $22 million last year, but this year it would be closer to $13 million. It would drop still more in the future, said Neff, as the business boom tapers off and Korean war shipments decline. As President Neff's damaging testimony continued, Bob Young held whispered conferences in the back of the hearing room with...
...category of "priority jobs," a system that was instituted experimentally last spring and with which Holt is believed to have disagreed. Monro and Taylor have divided all jobs into two kinds--priority and casual. Priority jobs are roughly defined as those inside and outside the University which will net a student more than $100 a year. Right now most of the 500 priority jobs (300 inside the University, 200 outside) pay between $250 and $400. Some (nightwatchmen and night switch-board operators especially) earn as much...
...largest independent canners of fruits & vegetables. She began her Manhattan holiday last week as the 1951 packing season ended. At its close, her Flotill Products, Inc. had turned out 150 million cans, including some 75 million cans of tomatoes and tomato products. This year, she estimates she will net some $1,300,000 after taxes, on $20 million in sales...
...United Fruit Co. is a $500 million enterprise. Its annual net earnings are greater than the national budget of any of the Central American countries in which it grows its big, sweet Gros Michel bananas for the U.S, and Europe. Years ago, the company used to operate in Guatemala and elsewhere with all the freewheeling methods that characterized the era of "dollar diplomacy." Since then, however, Unifruit has changed with the times, becoming a model big employer in the Caribbean. Paradoxically, Unifruit's reforms have only brought it under heavier attack by government and labor in Guatemala, especially since...