Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Films and the Liberal Union, lost almost $175 on showings this term. Charles G. Kadison, Jr. '55, president of Ivy Films, said that since all the bills had not yet been received, the losses might run even higher. He expects, however, that the Cinema will have a small net profit for the entire 1953-54 season...
Brazil's Bonanza. While France has been helped by a good crop year, Brazil has profited from crop failures. The coffee and cocoa price boom, plus tight restrictions on imports, has changed Brazil from a debtor nation nine months ago to one that has a trade surplus of almost $370 million. Cocoa prices went up 112% after the failure of the African crop. Though frost cut Brazil's coffee exports 15%, prices went up 50%. Net additional profit to Brazil: $165 million...
Although shareholders in Massachusetts Bay Telecasters are interested in running a television station as a profit-making venture, they intend also to give Channel Five a greater regard for art, culture, and education than is shown by Boston's present two channels. "Commercial stations have not devoted much intelligence or effort to offering educational programs," said Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, professor of Law and a director of M.B.T., "but our group thinks it can be done...
...Washington-Oregon line), Imperial. Grand Coulee (Washington), a total construction effort of more than $300 million. M-K built the San Francisco side of the 4,620-ft. Bay Bridge, upped its railroad work to a steady $10 million a year. Despite the Depression, M-K showed a profit in every year except...
Under the M-K banner, Ferguson has shifted from a conservative fixed-fee (cost plus a set profit) operation to a more competitive unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...