Word: pretax
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...represents a trap, not a test," he asserted. "A person who cannot afford three meals a day is going to think twice about paying for the right to vote." Negro Attorney Joseph Jordan noted that no member of his race has served in the Virginia legislature since the pretax days of Reconstruction. The poll tax, he said, had removed Negro legislators as effectively as "a magic wand...
...steel razor blades in 1961, it captured 30% of the British blade market, dominated by Boston's slow-moving Gillette Co. It then moved into the U.S. and bravely challenged Gillette on its home ground. By last year Wilkinson had moved into 50 countries, run up a 1964 pretax profit of $9.8 million and made confident predictions of a 40% sales increase in 1965. It began to look as if tiny David were slaying the Gillette Goliath...
...successfully will work to produce profits in retail chain merchandising. Since he took over the 87-year-old finance company in 1951, MacDonald has tightened up operations, spruced up offices and standardized procedures so much that 37% of H.F.C.'s revenues so far this year has become pretax profit...
...that the merger would dilute stock values. He prepared to sell his 4,100,000 shares back to the company for $146 million. The sale will be the largest single private stock transaction since Ford family stock in Ford Motors was sold in 1956, and will leave Ludwig with pretax profits of $45 million...
...only to promote its tools, Wilkinson's blade sales took off in a flurry of word-of-mouth advertising. They now have 40% of the total British market and a 5% edge in the $184 million U.S. blade market. Super Swords account for 80% of Wilkinson's pretax profits, which in four years have jumped tenfold to an expected $9.1 million this year...