Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the top names draw enough customers for a hotel to show an entertainment profit, but losses are simply chalked up to advertising costs. And most of the town's once thriving nightclubs have been reduced to strip joints...
...present courses tend both to be too narrow for the general student and to include discouraging language prerequisities. While translations always fall short of readings in the original language, there is little nonpoetic literature that cannot be studied with profit in English. The fact that only one language is required where works in both, say, French and German are read, is tacit admission that neither is really necessary. It would be better merely to recommend a language and require it only of graduate students in the field, as is regularly done in Slavic courses...
Time to Sell. Last week a major Imasa stockholder staged a surprise inspection of one of the abrasive factories and found "no production, no stocks, only five workers standing around with their arms folded." Under pressure. Belle sold out his interests, but he still made a profit. His assets mostly liquid again (partly in U.S. $500 bills), Belle declared that he was ready for further opportunity. "If you hear of any little industry selling out cheap," he told friends, "let me know. I've got money I don't know what to do with...
...figured what would have happened had an investor put an average $500 a year into a stock every year since 1929-about $15,500 in all. Had he bought Alcoa, his shares would be worth $115,850, and he would have pocketed $17,158 in cash dividends-a paper profit of $117,373 before taxes. Other top gainers on the same basis...
...Stock Profit...