Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bride-To-Be, first published in July, has been left waiting at the church although Curtis Vice President Benjamin Allen said last week: "For a quarterly, it is going pretty well." Though Curtis lifted its gross 2% to $90,650,000 for the first half of 1955, its net profit tumbled 33% to $2,500,000. The drop, explained Curtis, was caused by heavier outlays for promotion, rising costs of production, and increased volume discounts to heavy advertisers. Curtis hopes that the changes will reverse the trend, send profits...
...shaky trunk lines need a direct Government handout. Though they still earn heavy mail pay, all nine of the biggest carriers (American, Eastern, United, T.W.A., National, Northwest, Capital. Delta, Western) are self-supporting on their domestic runs. Overall estimates are that the industry will tot up a net operating profit of at least $150 million in 1955 v. $99.5 million last year. As a result, federal subsidies have dropped from $73 million in fiscal 1954 to an estimated $52.5 million in fiscal...
...Hogle & Co., soon came to the conclusion that a stock salesman's salary and commissions were not enough. Dumke got in at the start of the uranium boom and bought options on 400 claims in Utah's Big Indian district, sold them at a fat profit. Muir also cleaned up in uranium; he bought a big block of Lisbon Uranium Co. stock at 20? a share, saw it rise to $7. Light played the Big Board with equal success...
Above all else Felix developed the ability to change his nature and his wit to profit from any situation. He could be French, Italian or English at the drop of his handsome lower lip. He could entertain monarchs with homely stories about house pets or penetrating analyses of the social-economic state of the nation...
...method of consolidating recent gains is for Congress to pass new laws regulating both itself and the Executive Department. If Congress would once and for all set legal curbs on one-man committees and bring the safeguards of the courtroom into the committeeroom, it could profit from the relaxed climate of opinion. In addition, a full review of the Administration's security system would go a long way toward ending that program's injustices...