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...LIFE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, FORTUNE), would suffer the biggest second-class boost of all-from $15.4 million to $42.4 million, based on 1970 circulation levels. That increase of $27 million substantially exceeds what the magazines earned last year; it amounts to approximately two-thirds of the corporation's estimated pretax profit for all activities in 1971. Newsweek's postage would nearly double in five years under the original rate request and considerably exceed its 1970 profit...
...Gasthäuser catering to G.I.s charge triple the local price for beer, and prostitutes raise their fees as well, double when the customer is black. In many instances, enlisted men's families exist at close to the poverty line. Out of a private first class's pretax pay and allowances of $282.65, he and his family must spend up to $150 a month for rent in West Germany's tight housing market, $18 for utilities and $9 for a telephone that is mandatory (for recalling men in case of a Russian invasion). Moonlighting to compensate...
...still the most profitable part of Hefner's expanding empire. The magazine accounted for more than half the corporation's $132 million revenue last year, and for most of its $9,200,000 net income. Playboy Enterprises' other divisions are not doing nearly so well. Pretax profits from the 17 key clubs dropped slightly last year from $3,400,000 to $3,200,000. The company's hotel operations dipped into the red and showed a loss of $1,700,000 in 1970; a $2,200,000 deficit at the Playboy Plaza in Miami more than...
...enormous market that they can tap through subsidy programs. Under Section 235 of the 1968 Housing Act, the Government can pay all but 1% of the interest rate on each buyer's mortgage. Typical example: helped by the Government, a family of four with $375 a month pretax income can buy a $15,150 three-bedroom ranch home from Builder Ray Ellison of San Antonio for $200 down and $75 a month, including fire insurance and realty taxes. To buy the same house, a family whose income exceeds the Section 235 limits ($875 a month) would have to stand...
...comparison, the pretax profits of all U.S. manufacturing corporations in 1969 averaged 20.1% on stockholders' equity. The results of the GAO study of the 146 contracts carries the strong implication that the average profit of 56.1% applies to most other defense contracts as well. The GAO claims that defense work is so lucrative because of a device that often removes much of the risk from Pentagon contracting: progress payments, made weekly, for up to 90% of the costs incurred. Progress payments rose from $3.3 billion in 1964 to $10 billion last year. Such payments are a common practice...