Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills to enrich poverty-stricken natives. In all his endeavors, Harry Morrison does not forget that he is a hardheaded American businessman working to make a profit. But that is not his only objective...
Morrison's one commandment is to get the job done on time, even at the expense of the 10% profit that he tries to make on big jobs. When his estimators make a mistake, Morrison never tries to squirm out from under. When the boss of a job wants help, he does not go to Boise; Morrison or one of his lieutenants hotfoots it out to the job. Otherwise, Morrison gives his project managers all the elbow room they need...
...first capital consisted of $600 in cash, a dozen wheelbarrows, a few horses, some picks and shovels. The company's first job-a $14,000 subcontract to build a pumping station on the Snake River-brought only a tiny profit. The prime contractor and the promoter got into a court fight, and M-K was caught in the middle. Morrison ruefully recalls: "You can't make money out of lawsuits...
...monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great scaffolds on which men with 40 drills could hammer away at the same time, thus cutting costs drastically. Hoover was finished in five years, and MK's share of the $10.4 million profit was about...
Since 1950, when the Student Council asked the Key to present an All-College dance, the Society has always made a profit on the Saturday night function. This year, however, the Key encountered opposition from the Band, the Glee Club, and two House committees and incurred the loss on the dance...