Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the agency became aware of these facts and discussed them with Mr. Ladejinsky, he freely admitted the above actions." He thus seemed in clear violation of an ICA regulation that says: "No employee may transact, have a monetary interest in, or engage in any business or profession, for profit, in the country or countries to which he is assigned, either in his own name or in the name, or through the agency, of another person...
...Cambridge, in 1945. The performance of their first test model induced the Lithomat Corporation to undertake the development and perfection of their machine. In 1948, with the machine still not ready for production, the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc., was founded to help the inventors. This non-profit organization has financed the further development of Photon by soliciting contributions from 200 to 300 firms in the graphic arts industry. Actual production of the machine started only about two years ago, and there are still only five machines in commercial operation, with four more ready for shipment to the Ledger next...
...relation between the Graphic Arts Research Foundation and Photon, Inc. is an interesting one. Both are located in the same building and many of the officials of the non-profit organization are also connected with the Manufacturing licensee company. The Research Foundation was established in recognition of "the urgent need for research in the graphic arts." The organizers realized that the printing and publishing industry was not research conscious, and that specific research projects would be required to attract the needed, initial financial support. Consequently, Photon was chosen as the basis of the Foundation's first project. It owns...
Progress' Casualties. Russell has virtually written off passenger operations as a perpetual profit-loser, but his freight business grows as new companies move in. Every day at least one new company chooses a site on S.P.'s right of way; 15,000 new freight cars are on order. Southern Pacific's 1954 net of $48.7 million made it the third most profitable U.S. railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines...
...will not sell the 59,000 shares of Ward stock he and his family own, believes that "under its present management, Montgomery Ward cannot fail to continue its progress." Since the proxy fight started, Ward progress has already brought Wolfson dividends of more than $600,000 and a paper profit of $857,000 at Ward's current market price...