Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truckers are thus able to snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads, one New York-Chicago trucker was able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly...
...being held because "CRIMSON editors, by drawing on their own experience, both on the CRIMSON editors, by drawing on their own experience, both on the CRIMSON and on school papers, can make significant contributions to secondary school journalism," and added that he hoped that the school editors would profit by the conference...
...operate facilities in the city of Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in order to broadcast by radio, TV, or by any other mode of communication, which now or in the future may exist, musical, cultural, educational, informational, and other programs and materials for the entertainment and profit of the public, and for the education and training of its staff...
CORPORATE DIVIDENDS are running far ahead of last year despite rising costs of business, declining profit margins for many companies. Cash dividend payments in the first ten months this year hit $8.7 billion, up 12½ % from...
...struggle to find a new president in a big corporation. Later, in Cash McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise-the profit system-but when one of our citizens shows enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit we do our best to make him feel ashamed of himself...