Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high as 225,000: Musical Masterpiece Society, Music Treasures of the World and the Book-of-the-Month Club's Music-Appreciation Records. All of them have had the same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel disks, such as Debussy's La Mer, and has made a deal with New York's Metropolitan Opera for Met cast recordings. Last week Columbia Records...
...Evidence that 1) Yale was sacked as governor because he used his position for excessive private profit, and 2) after he had seen his wife off alone for England, he lived in the same house with Mrs. Nicks and a Portuguese mistress, Hieronima de Paivia, who bore...
...plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity. Lilacs and Portals, by one of the "bad boys" of the '20s, Carl Ruggles (played by the Juilliard String Orchestra), are handsome but dated experiments in sound combinations. Since Columbia can hardly expect to show a profit on this series anyway, it seems a shame it does not grit its worthy teeth and bring out at least a few samples of really controversial music...
...Tiffany family and others, claims control of 55,000 shares, turned down Maidman's demands and got ready for a proxy fight. But Maidman, who had bought some 13,000 shares for about $30 each, another 20,000 for $50 or higher, knew he already had a profit without fighting, shopped around for a buyer for his stock. Last week Arde Bulova's Bulova Watch Co. agreed to take over his holdings in a deal that will pay Maidman $60 a share or allow him to exchange the shares for Bulova stock. In any case, the deal will...
...under the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the national F.F.A. program is an attempt to combine academic work in agriculture with practical after-school experience. The boys who join can buy livestock from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit of its own. Under P.D. (for Paul Duane) Spilsbury, this learning-by-earning process has paid off handsomely in Wasco. When he took over in 1938, the Wasco Union High School's chapter was worth...