Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government retorted with statistics showing that four out of five of France's 1,540,000 artisans and small businessmen (who are famed for keeping two sets of records, one to run their businesses by, the other to show the tax collector) declared an average net profit of only $89 a month in 1952, whereas even office employees received an average $104 a month. "A presumption of fraud weighs heavily on tradesmen and artisans," said the government. But in southern and southwestern France, unabashed Poujade vigilantes went right on chasing tax collectors down the roads, mobbing police and defying...
...else molto serioso musicians. But he also found that most of the local films and records were made in the U.S., decided that Australia was hungry for American entertainers. By booking big names into big boxing stadiums, he could afford to pay expensive air fares and still show a profit...
...seat stadium burned to the ground, had to move to a smaller (3,000) hall, and Promoter Gordon faced a bleak week. Worse, Brisbane's newspaper Truth quoted Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Arthur Fadden who was "very perturbed" about the influx of profit-hungry American entertainers. "They are like butcherbirds," * said he. "They fly in, pick up the worm and fly away again." Nevertheless, Aussie audiences went on cheering, and when he flies home this week, Singer Sinatra will carry back a reported...
...right out of court by a display which was truly a performance worthy of the most exaggerated tales of the Harvard lawyer's prowess. It is to be hoped that the tactics of faculty counsel will be recognized as what they were, and that the Committee's practitioners will profit from an initiation under laughter rather than under fire. Furthermore, the Committee need not think their case was a complete failure, for "an enjoyable time was had by all." Joe Mullins...
...costs are so high. American Airlines, Pan American and T.W.A. are all expanding air-cargo services; United Airlines jumped its business from 4,500,000 ton-miles in 1946 to 34 million, showed a 23% gain last year alone. Yet so far, not one company has reported a sizable profit from its cargo fleets...