Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next part of the picture is apparently intended to suggest that a businessman's profit is apt to be without honor, especially in another country; that it is, in effect, bad diplomacy and even worse business to make a dollar and lose a friend. Perhaps no one will argue the point, but every American is entitled to resent the way the point is made. Scriptwriter Robert Ardrey, who worked from the novel by Howard Swiggett, unfortunately felt obliged to revive an ancient canard that has been a dead duck for a long time. Americans, the script suggests, are rich...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $240 million empire and attempted to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward, sounded a general retreat last week. He is getting out of Montgomery Ward and selling all his 59,000 shares (at an expected profit of about $750,000). Furthermore, he is thinking of selling the Highway Trailer Co., the Marion Power Shovel Co. and its subsidiary, the Osgood Co., all controlled by Merritt-Chapman & Scott, which Wolfson runs as chairman, president and chief stockholder (more than 157,000 out of 5,374,360 shares...
...skillfully contrived scheme to make money from a "non-profit" showing Shakespeare's Henry V with Sir Lawrence Olivier came to an abrupt stop yesterday. The pirated film was on its way back to New York...
...next Negro at Alabama must profit by the mistakes, however innocent, of Miss Lucy. Probably another student should not be admitted alone, for this gives extremists an opportunity to focus their attack. One Alabama professor suggested admitting around fifteen middle aged Negro school teachers who could scurry about the campus in fifteen different directions...
There was much enthusiasm for Foster Furcolo ("symbol of democracy") and his wife (who sat on her mink stole). The high point of his speech came when he noted the high price of food and asked who got the profit. "Does the small grocer get the profit?" "NO!" cried the audience. "Does the farmer get the profit?" "NO!" "Then the question is, who gets the profit." My friend said, "That's a pretty damn good question...