Word: profiteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy War hol's Frankenstein and Dracula lampoons to The Texas Chainsaw Murders...
...solution. Within the past few weeks oilmen have been mildly encouraged by signs of government backpedaling. The Cabinet is expected to announce soon a tax rate between 50% and 60%, with special incentives for developers of the smaller fields. But oilmen still grumble that this would leave too little profit if oil prices drop...
Chrysler is not the only auto company struggling with punctured profits. Earnings at General Motors fell 60% last year, to $950 million, and GM's board voted to reduce the quarterly dividend from 850 to 600. Ford reported profits down 60% in 1974, to $361 million. Thanks to some tax credits, Ford can show a $22 million profit in the fourth quarter; but on a pretax basis the company lost $46 million. Many Wall Street analysts expect the company to report more big losses for the first few months of this year. American Motors managed to clear $13 million...
...mainstage shows this year, considerably lower than that of past years, is $2000. The last Grant-In-Aid production in Agassiz Theater, Fiorello!, was budgeted at about $5500.) Again against all odds, Teeth sold out five of six performances and grossed $1100, making more than 100 per cent net profit...
...prevent original productions on principle, LaZebnik who has been through it all, claims that the problem is not really financial. "The main obstacle is the people here," he says, For even when he had a show. Teeth. that everyone agreed beforehand could not fail to make a considerable profit, he was ultimately forced to pull strings in order to be able to produce it. Acquaintances, he will tell you, do everything here. In-groupness and cliques are inevitable in the non-professional atmosphere of college theater, where one is constantly dealing with acquaintances. Personalities clash; objectivity is abandoned. Outsiders...