Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dallas' Tecon Corp., the lively youngster of the construction business that underbid older firms to get the Contractor's Hill job, expects to finish by Aug. 15, and to make a profit of between 30% and 40% on the $4,100,000 it will receive...
G.A.W. [June 13]-next? G.A.P. (guaranteed annual profit for businesses)? G.A.I. (guaranteed annual income for professional persons and farmers) ? G.A.C. (guaranteed annual commissions for salesmen) ? What about day laborers and migratory workers? Why not a G.W.F.M. (guaranteed weekly filet mignon...
CAFE will manage the farm, for 30% of the profits, or the owner may move in and run it himself. After the trees mature (in four years), Johnson says, each farm should gross at least $40,000 a year, with a fat one-half of the take as profit. The notion of owning a profitable Paraguayan plantation has proved irresistibly appealing to Wall Street bankers, Brazilian businessmen, even staid European capitalists. A typical sale, as related by Johnson...
...that the U.A.W. would go easy on American. American President George Romney expressed the same hope before a Senate committee investigating competition in the auto industry. He pointed out that American is already paying higher wages than the Big Three, and its books are just beginning to show a profit (v. a $654,390 loss in 1955's first quarter). But last week the U.A.W. made it clear that the independents must follow the Ford-General Motors pattern. Said Leonard Woodcock, U.A.W. vice president and Reuther's chieftain for American Motors: American's auto workers need G.A.W...
...because we must -we have the desire, the determination to build atomic-powered ships for peace. And build them we shall. While we design bombs that can obliterate great military objectives-because we must-we are also designing generators, channels and reservoirs of atomic energy so that man may profit from this gift which the Creator of all things has put into his hands. And build them we shall." Look to the Mind. "As for the social and political problems that will accompany this development, their outlines can be foreseen but dimly . . . The normal life span will continue to climb...