Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million for the power-producing features of a $310 million dam across the Columbia River, in return get priority on its output for 50 years. The Government would build John Day Dam, own it forever and pay $37 million for navigation and flood-control features, that return no profit. John Day would have a capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts of power (twice the potential of Bonneville Dam), permit slackwater commercial navigation 328 miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean to the wheat-growing Inland Empire...
...building, keep title to it. The Government moves in, pays the contractor a fixed yearly sum, also reimburses him for local taxes, insurance and other costs. At the end of the lease period (maximum: 25 years), when the contractor's cost is amortized and his profit made, title to the building goes to the Government. Advantages of the lease-purchase device are that it keeps a steady flow of new buildings coming into the federal system, smooths out peaks and valleys in federal spending caused by enormous lump-sum building appropriations. Moreover, while the contractor has title...
...stunned management knew why the raiders were interested. The company had a book value of $102.92 per common share. Thus, for an investment of $1,552,000 to win stock control, the raiders could sell off the company's assets, pocket a quick $1,700,000 profit. Angry and determined, National Casket's management lost no time fighting back. First, it alerted all stockholders to the raid, released its 1955 earnings weeks ahead of schedule, promised to boost dividends. The report: sales of $16,997,754, impressive earnings of $583,542 or $4.22 per share...
Also, if Walsh were to profit financially from the games, the A.A.U.'s actions could be explained. But actually all profits from the tour will go toward the building of a Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield...
...survive in the cutthroat refrigeration line, it would have to change its operation radically, put in a complete set of appliances, expand out of the familiar farm market into the big urban markets, recruit a huge new dealer organization, then fight for a tremendous volume to make a profit. Said President McCaffrey: "We felt we'd rather take our efforts and our capital and invest them in things that are more nearly related to our main activity...