Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even dailies of medium circulation, least pinched by the cost-income claw, are finding it increasingly tough to stay in the black ink. In a study of a "typical" daily of 50,000 circulation. Editor & Publisher found revenue up 25.61% in the last decade, costs up 39.57%-and net profit down 58.24% (see chart...
Reducing Diet. To stay afloat, newspapers have tried everything from diversification (the Charlotte Observer turned a tidy profit last year by leasing its truck fleet) to dieting (the Los Angeles Times has shrunk 5 in. in width, estimates that each ½-in. trim saves $500,000 a year in paper costs). Last year the Milwaukee Journal, minding its pennies, canceled its annual employees' picnic (savings: $12,000), rerouted its newsprint cars (savings: $1,500), and with other items amounting to as little as $250 a year managed to save an overall...
...cannot be the same as economic rivalry in a world of scarcity," and there is now no reason why both blocs can not exist together. Already the conflict on the idealogical front has shifted, he noted, so that the West no longer stresses the necessity of private initiative and profit but now asserts that "whatever is achieved economically is at the expense of freedom...
...gamble for Roy Chalk. His offer has been received cautiously by most of the city brass except Transit Boss Charles Patterson, who favors it. Last week Chalk relaxed his terms by pledging to keep the 15? subway fare so long as the city guarantees him an after-tax profit of 6½%. As usual, he was mum about who was putting up the bulk of his bankroll. Grinned O. Roy Chalk: "I'm a poor man -never have more than 50 bucks with me. The big thing is, I know where I can get more...
Since real estate companies "only reflect the will of the landlords and are dependent on them for commissions, these agencies cannot afford to take as firm a stand as voluntary non-profit groups can, Walter K. Winchester, Assistant Executive vice-President of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, pointed...