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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hundreds of other profit and non-profit organizations-churches, welfare organizations, stores-were shipping gifts abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: All on Earth Together | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and accounted for last week's fiesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...have a fresh-squeezed taste. It got its second boost when it sold Crooner Bing Crosby 20,000 shares of stock at 10? a share and made him a director (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948). As part of the deal, Crosby, whose stock is now worth $14.75 a share (paper profit: $293,000) began plugging Minute Maid on a song & chatter radio program five days a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Growing Maid | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...twelve months ending Oct. 31, Minute Maid rang up $11.8 million in net sales, as against a mere $3.7 million the year before, and showed a net profit of $996,000. In the current year Minute Maid plans to boost orange juice output to 213 million of its 6-oz. cans, up 142 million cans from last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Growing Maid | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last spring the FCC decided to clean things up. It notified college stations, including WHRB, that they would have to meet requirements for regular non-profit stations or lose their permits. Most of the requirements were perfectly legitimate--they involved assigning stations to specific channels and approving their equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Beam | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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