Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity for the economic betterment of mankind and the profit potential for private investors through a boom in foreign investment seem almost limitless. Congratulations on backing a much-needed conference...
...entire system. Declines have to occur from time to time when mistakes in judgment have been made-when there has been waste and extravagance and incompetence and inefficiency. The only way we have of eliminating it is by taking losses occasionally. This is a loss as well as a profit economy...
...Profit Slump. Humphrey argued back that National Steel's other goods and services, e.g., freight rates, have crept up so much that its- manufacturing costs are at least $7.88 a ton higher than last spring. Yet National's July price increase averaged only $4.58 a ton because it specializes in certain steels on which there was a smaller-than-average rise or none at all. Humphrey felt that any price rise "tends to be inflationary," but. he thought the steel rise was necessary. So hard have higher costs nipped National that its third-quarter profits slid...
RAILROAD EARNINGS Though the Pennsy and Central gross more than any other U.S. railroad, their percentage of net profit is far less than other leading roads. Comparative 1956 figures for the nation's top ten roads...
...Defense Department last week also eased the industry's fear that charges on new financing could not be recovered from the Air Force. While the Government will not specifically pay interest charges on any funds the planemakers borrow, it will revise contracts to allow borrowers a bigger profit, in effect paying them back for interest charges. As matters stood at week's end, the darkening clouds over the U.S. aircraft industry looked far less threatening...