Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socialist countries, granting that country credits and free gifts? . . . Everyone knows that the imperialists never give money to anyone without a purpose, just for the sake of 'beautiful eyes.' They invest their capital in those enterprises from which they hope to receive a good profit. If the imperialists agree to give assistance to a socialist state, they do not take such a step in order to strengthen...
Generally, circulation has held steady. But for the first four months of this year, newspaper ad linage was off 7.8% from 1957 figures.*Coming on top of the general postwar rise in production costs, the recession was squeezing tighter yet the thin profit margins of many a publisher...
...broker who packed her off to Bermuda with ten suitcases containing $175,000 in gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline S. F. Porter, and did not let her affirm her sex until 1942, when S. F. was changed...
...prospect of a murderer-and a story-getting away has set Fleet Street to trampling out a foaming vintage of sour grapes. Cried the Daily Sketch: "Arrest this man." Huffed the Star: "It is bad for a nation when a man can get away with murder and show a profit...
Most of the difference between the cost and the wholesale price goes into packaging and advertising-which often cost more than the product itself. For the top companies, profits are fat; Revlon made a 9.4% profit on its gross after taxes, more than leaders in many another industry. Said a Denver manufacturer, who admits to a 900% markup on certain products: "A cheap line wouldn't do well. Women wouldn't be caught dead telling their friends they bought cheap cosmetics...