Word: profiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government of the United States has made a great step forward in the recognition of its role assuring opportunity for all who can profit by higher education. It seems unfortunate that such a forward step should be the occasion of doubt--doubt concerning the responsibility of our institutions of higher education, and doubt concerning the loyalty of those they seek to help along the road to greater service to their country. Robert F. Goheen, President...
...song is a theatrical play"). For a time, Yves sang the Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers. But politics, he now believes, is not his line-possibly because he owns a chateau in Normandy, drives a $25,000 Bentley and reaps a fat profit from stage appearances and films (his latest: Where the Hot Wind Blows with Gina Lollobrigida). The mesmeric effect he has on females of all ages only occasionally bothers his wife, Cinemactress Simone (Room at the Top] Signoret. "When it gets too boring," says she, "and a woman won't leave...
...impetus from the cold economics of postwar commercial publishing. Soaring costs have fostered the hit psychology of the Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting...
...continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition among sanatoria entrepreneurs, who often measure their profit margins by the pennies they save in the kitchen. Seen as an expose of the tuberculosis racket, The Rack would be notable as a muckraking novel alone...
...longstanding supplier, Douglas. Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months...