Word: profited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call it the Raw Deal down here. It's no deal at all," said he. He agreed with Sims that farmers should diversify their crops, but said that "cotton is all some of them can do. Some go into truck, but truck is high risk along with high profit. It takes money to switch from cotton...
Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...
...less. In case of a tie, the rackets collected. As it turned out the score was 22-14 and the gamblers missed by just one point. However other upsets such as the Teunessee-North Carolina game and the Purdue-Minnesota game enabled the card issuers to make a handsome profit...
Cutbacks. With production at a peak, General Motors pushed third-quarter sales to $1,580,405,459, up 32%. Its quarterly profit of $198.7 million v. $120.3 million in the 1948 quarter was the biggest in corporation history. In expectation of an extra dividend, G.M. stock rose to a new 1949 high of 68. But General Motors' President Charles E. Wilson and Chrysler's President K. T. Keller both warned that the steel strike had hurt even if it should end this week...
...only two (Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Bangor & Aroostook) showed a gain for the first nine months over 1948. Some were in the red (e.g., Pennsylvania's September loss of $2.7 million put it in the red for the first nine months, v. a $20.4 million profit in 1948), and a bad third quarter put all the rest down anywhere from 15% to 75% for the nine months. Among the coal companies, earnings were also down...