Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenes in French imports are suddenly cut short. Bathing suit sequences that wouldn't make an American Grandma blush are scrapped minutes after they reach the Irish censors' office, and Tarzan has never appeared in Spain without a full suit of clothes. Since nearly 40 percent of Hollywood's profit comes from abroad, the film czars have gathered legions of experts to remove objectionable parts before they leave this country. But it's impossible to out guess foreign whims, and the film companies are paying millions in censor fees while they watch the cellulose flutter into the trash...
...Council have devoted much of their energy to the showing of popular films--an activity totally irrelevent to the purposes of their organizations. The showing of pictures by these groups has irritated Ivy Films, which feels it has the sole right to put on movies. More important, profit-making films have endangered the tax-free status of the University. Last week, after earlier limitations had failed, the Administration permanently ended the showing of films for profit. Though the University has taken the only possible course, it has left the political groups with a serious financial problem...
...State. He conducts the Government's business from an office in the hamlet of Enumclaw (pop. 2,788), just seven minutes' walk from his home. And on a salary of $6,140 a year, and with two permanent assistants, he manages a timber operation that turned a profit of $631,884.88 last year...
...Washington last week, the 16-man U.S. Tax Court unanimously turned down BIR's test suit. Wrote Judge Norman O. Tietjens for the court: "We are not unaware that the propriety of this action has elsewhere been questioned. However, the question of propriety or impropriety of the [profit] distributions is not raised in these proceedings and we do not pass upon it ... Taxpayers have the right so to arrange their affairs that their taxes shall be as low as possible, and the tax consequences flow from what they did rather than what they might have done...
...mild ups and downs, 25% more cars have been sold in the second quarter than in the first quarter. Consumers already have an incentive to buy in the winter, with the chance at bigger discounts and trade-ins. And what the union seems to forget is that any greater profit for dealers who sell cars in the winter would have to come straight from the companies' own earnings. While G.M. and Ford have had fat earnings, Chrysler was barely running in the black last year, and the other companies were running...