Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy expressed far more accurately the West's hopes of converting the old relationship of empire and colony into a new partnership of mutual respect and mutual profit. For its effect it relied on a simple demonstration of the real value of Western friendship-by the simple process of showing vividly what it costs to be without...
...Playboy will begin moving from four different Chicago offices to a refurbished (for $500,000), five-story Playboy Building. That will give Hefner room for a new project. He has hired the whole staff of Mad, a short-lived satirical pulp, and out of Playboy's $750,000 profit (before taxes) in 1956, will launch a still unnamed new magazine this winter...
...after the leak, when Northeast stock was already rising fast, on a tip from a broker friend. Ruppar got 500 shares at 10½, later picked up another 500 at around 12. After holding the stock for several days, he sold in the middle of a profit-taking drop, actually lost an estimated $1,600 on the deal. That left the CAB, the FBI and the Senate Investigations Subcommittee still looking for the barracuda. But the case had already served one good purpose: from now on CAB will announce its route awards as soon as it makes its decision, thus...
...Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party of his good friend Pietro Nenni. (Gentili's contributions to Nenni in this year's May election: a reported...
...last great reservoir of private U.S. capital. But even some of the biggest insurance companies, e.g., Prudential, are so heavily committed that they are turning down loans they would have snapped up a year ago. The big squeeze is on businessmen who have not previously borrowed, have uncertain profit prospects or want money for speculation, e.g., inventory-buying to beat price increases...