Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, tweedy Poet W. H. Auden, 48, rose to thank the nation's publishers and bookdealers for bestowing a National Book Award on his sacred and profane volume, The Shield of Achilles. Said he: "What, in the name of profit, dear foolish publishers, kind unworldly booksellers, am I doing here? . . . You will never make enough [out of me] to pay the wages of one incompetent typist . . . For your award . . . my thanks; for the dollars I shall never bring you, my apologies...
...TIME, Jan. 30) that they will co-star in a film version of Playwright Terence Rattigan's London stage hit, The Sleeping Prince. Producers: Marilyn and Sir Laurence. Director: Olivier. Breathed Marilyn: "My hope and dream was to have him ..." Sir Laurence allowed that he would like some profit participation, if he can "squeeze" it out of Marilyn...
...Niarchos staked his insurance money on the belief that ships would be short at a time when most shippers predicted a surplus. As a "friendly" alien, he was able to buy surplus U.S. Liberties and Victories (average 1945 price: $540,000); he traded them off at a profit and bought surplus T-2 tankers, including the 13 he bought illegally. He persuaded U.S. oil companies who owned most of their own tankers and leased the rest on short-term charter that he could save them money by operating the ships himself on long-term contract...
...Rocket has enough economic advantages over standard trains to make Rock Island hopeful of turning a profit on passenger operations. The four-car train, with a General Motors diesel locomotive, cost $788,000, with a per-seat cost of $2,300 v. $3,800 for conventional cars. The steel and aluminum train weighs 451,000 Ibs., slightly over half the 807,000 Ibs. of Rock Island's 20-year-old Peoria Rocket. Thus, the locomotive need develop only 1,200 h.p. v. 2,000 h.p. for conventional engines, makes the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run on $10 worth...
...guilty of any of the Government's charges, the A.A.A.A. agreed to end the requirement that members collect a 15% commission and its ban against rebates, and stop policing the industry. To admen, A.A.A.A.'s concessions will mean little. The 15% commission is not all profit, but covers the costs of preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale fee-splitting. Every...