Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although it will carry 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo, Savannah has no hopes of turning a profit, will fulfill its mission if it can lead the way to more efficient models and prove the safety and reliability of seagoing nuclear power. The power plant and 690 lbs. of enriched uranium-to be loaded next spring-will be shielded by a 33-in.-thick ring of water, a steel cylinder, then a 2,000-ton composite shield, and finally by a 24-in. redwood and steel collision mat. Dotted around the ship will be twelve monitors to gauge...
...tried the same sort of approach seven years ago when his TV network was just getting started in black and white. He spotted 220 RCA receivers in parks, railroad stations, back alleys. Today, with about 4,000,000 black-and-white receivers across Japan, NTV earns a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...
...last year) were the highest for any quarter in the company's history, lifted Ford's half-year earnings 1,676% over last year, to a record $5.22 a share. Though Ford's second-quarter sales were only $3.7 million higher than the first quarter, its profits rose $16.3 million, demonstrating what automen have long known: once they hurdle the hump of initial cost and keep on selling, the profit dollars pile up with amazing speed...
...beaming report of April-June earnings of $2.70 a share, more than double last year's performance. American's nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year, v. last year's loss...
...propose the reorganization in time to do himself any good. Said he: "I'm not going to put it before the Congress until the final session when I'm here, because I am not going to do it with any thought that it is I who will profit...