Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, May 13--The Senate Rackets Committee received evidence today that Dave Beck's relatives and friends made a profit of $180,000 selling toy trucks and other merchandise to the Teamsters Union...
...probability, is that the Russians mean business. But there are other possibilities. They may be interested simply in testing out the subject, to see whether it has more advantages to them than disadvantages. Or finally, they may have no serious intentions at all about nuclear disarmament but only seek profit from negotiating with the Western powers as one more way of regaining the social acceptability before the world that they lost in Budapest...
...four of the five trading days last week, Wall Street was warmed by a continuance of the spring rise in stocks. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 6.04 points to within a point of the year's high of 498.56 before being nipped by profit-taking. As it stood, stocks wound up the week at 497.54, some 43 points higher than the low for the year. Main reason: a continuing chorus of cheery first-quarter earnings reports...
...sales of more than $600 million. He succeeds Walter Hochschild, 56, son of Berthold Hochschild, one of the company's founders. Walter, president since 1950, becomes chairman of the board. Vogelstein, who has been vice president since 1953, faces the immediate task of improving American Metal's profit picture, which suffered in the March quarter (47? a share v. 1956's 57?) from lower copper prices...
...those days a merchant often had to wait years before his expended capital came home with a profit. Because of slow transportation, storms, piracy and outbreaks of plague, trade and profit margins were so precarious as to give ulcers to the steeliest modern businessman. Many a modern businessman will, in fact, find a good deal of himself reflected in Datini. He lived in a state of constant, wretched anxiety-"so vexed with many matters," he groaned, "it is a wonder I am not out of my mind.'' When he slept, nightmares about a crumbling house destroyed his rest...