Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever had outside of Government." His remark is perhaps too exclusive: Brownell's lonely job has required him to pick fights with some friends inside the Government. He tangled with Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who could see nothing illegal about big packers and grocers making a tidy profit by selling cheese to the Government at one support price and buying it back a few days later at a lower price. The Justice Department is suing to recover $2,500,000. Again, Brownell clashed with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and prominent banking...
Then Joe turned publicity to political profit. He took off after Millard Tydings, helped smear Tydings into defeat in what a Senate investigating committee later called a "despicable back-street type of campaign." Among Government employees and officials-even among his own Senate colleagues-the McCarthy legend grew, and with it the fear that opposition to McCarthy's crusade would turn him upon them as he had turned on Tydings, for in Joe's book, a McCarthy critic was either a Communist or a fool...
...easy to say that the entire problem can be remedied by more didicated students and better paid, better qualified tutors. Until Utopia arrives, however, a more practical solution must be found. By separating the sheep from the goats halfway through the sophomore year, both tuor and student can profit...
...steel pushbutton brewer makes 500 cups of hot tea or 400 glasses of iced tea an hour. Teamen see a potential market for the $850 machine in 241,000 high-volume restaurants, note that tea is one of the most lucrative restaurant items, with iced tea grossing an 85% profit. Using a pilot model, one restaurant boosted hot tea sales 125%, iced...
Last year Hollywood produced more than 250 shorts, about 30% of its 1935 peak, and hordes of industrial shorts were turned out in hope of creating a bigger demand. For the regular studios, the competition could be stiff. Reason: while they have to sell their shorts to make a profit, many major corporations are able to dump their industrial films on the general public by paying exhibitors $50 to $100 to show them for a week...