Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal. It is easier to tell a man to take the traditional courses-unexciting, shallow, and often repetitious survey courses-than to conclude that this particular man could well be allowed to do much of this work on his own-reading and listening and talking where he can profit most. The frequent result is depressing indeed, for we see many a man less mature, less self-poised and less confident after two years in a graduate school than he was as an inspirited college senior...
ARABIAN OIL MONOPOLY, held by U.S.-owned companies, will be broken if Japan's new Arabian Oil Co. signs pending contract, upsetting the traditional 50-50 profit split. Terms of deal are still secret, but oilmen in U.S. and Tokyo say that Japanese company will pay about $2,000,000 a year to seek oil off shore of Saudi Arabia's half of Neutral Zone, will give 56% of profits and several other benefits to Saudi Arabia...
...sold by General Motors to the old Omnibus Corp., which operated bus lines in New York City and Chicago. In four years, Hertz's operating revenues have risen from $28.7 million to 1957's expected $78 million, which will bring $6,000,000 in after-tax profits. Now that the 107-year-old company has the highly useful services of the 405 American Express offices, it can really step on the gas overseas. Says Hertz's Greenebaum: "Our goal is an annual volume of $15 million overseas in three years. By that time, we expect to make...
...Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...
...convince the Department of English that he is able to pursue such a course of study. Why should he be barred? If this method of teaching produces the best sort of learning, then it should be used as widely as possible. Science concentrators, now wholly outside tutorial, might profit especially from a History 99 or a Fine Arts 99. Course reduction, now often unsupervised, can provide a means to learn an outside field, but without a tutor for a sounding board many students who enter with the best of intentions find they do not do much work...