Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid the big error of the Marshall Plan-that of handing over U.S. aid on a government-to-government basis. As soon as the pumps are primed, partnership loans to governments would be quickly tapered off, and the building of dams and factories left to private capital, operating for profit. The partnership would also provide U.S. and European technicians, to teach Indians, Bolivians, Egyptians, how modern industry is run. U.S. experts believe that atomic-energy reactors might be used efficaciously to provide some of the power for industries in fuel-scarce areas...
...Pope was still gravely ill, and the long, anxious watch went on-a watch in which millions of people in other faiths joined. Roman Catholics all over the world prayed: "O God graciously look upon Thy servant Pius . . . that he may profit his subjects both by word and example and, together with the flock committed to his care, attain to eternal life...
...their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among bottlers, are leading a campaign to throw out a state law that sets retail prices, thereby guarantee a profit to all bottlers, efficient or not. Even in dairy-rich Pennsylvania, big-city legislators have set out to abolish the state's milk-control commission...
...after the processors. It found, in a study of ten representative processing plants around the U.S., that the margin between prices paid the farmer and retail prices had increased as much as 27.9% in 3½ years, and a "very substantial portion of the increased spread went into greater profit-taking...
...than 25 years ago young men do not advance fast in finance. So in his first years on the job he may see few direct results from his graduate work. But the graduate training should put him in a position to learn more readily from his job and to profit more from his experience...