Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Profit-Sharing. In St. Louis, charged with passing four counterfeit $10 bills in the pay envelopes of his employees, Cafe Owner George de Filippo explained that he had found them in his cash register, knew they were phony but saw no reason why he should be stuck with them...
...always had the means to prevent speculation, and the crash which inevitably results, Galbraith said, but has been unwilling to take the responsibility of precipitating this crash. "This is a matter of prevention, not control, for booms are not controllable, they are based on the hope of easy profit," he said. When the hope exists, there is a boom, he explained, and when it does not, there is no boom. The government cannot compromise on this matter...
Ever since her late husband changed the Broadmoor Palace from a horse-track into an ice rink in 1937 when the horse shows didn't show a profit, Mrs. Penrose has been earning name as the "Mother of Colorado Hockey," and has even instigated a Pee-Wee League and hockey school to develop future stars for Colorado College, a perennial ice power in the West...
...across the board, the profit charts showed an upward curve. Radio Corp. of America boosted its fourth-quarter earnings to $12,968,000, a fat 31% above last year. For the full year, R.C.A. earned $41 million (v. 1953's $35 million). Eastman Kodak Co. pushed its last-quarter profits up more than 50%, to $23 million, closed the year with earnings of $3.99 a share (v. $2.86 for 1953). Even the cancer-scared tobacco industry moved up. R. J. Reynolds (Camels) sent its fourth-quarter profits...
...Even the profit-hungry railroads were rolling ahead. In January this year, Pennsylvania earned $1,658,066, v. a loss of $2,056,351 for the same month of 1954. The New Haven Railroad showed profits of about $1,000,000 for January, v. last year's $283,000 loss; Union Pacific reported a net of $5,124,261, an 18% gain over 1954, and Bob Young's New York Central reported a net profit of $3,082,934, v. a loss of $2,762,696 in January...