Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Bulletin, Inc., which publishes the magazine bi-weekly during the college year, is a non-profit corporation that is completely self-supporting and has been for all but a few years of its long existence. Admittedly a sort of interlocking directorate exists, with William Bentinck-Smith '37 being the current University official on the Bulletin's board of directors, but no one questions the magazine's spasmodically-asserted right to disagree with any Harvard official it chooses, from President Puscy on down...
...while builders objected to Uncle Sam moving in on them, they found themseves unable to act without without his help. They were inhibited by the shaky war situation and threats of material scarcities. Rent controls, which lasted up until 1952, made apartment building seem even less economically inviting. Profit hopes looked slim, while risks multiplied...
...report simply made the classic case for free trade, even showing how towns in Simpson's own 18th Pennsylvania Congressional District profit from dealing with Venezuela. Said Simpson: "I know that exports to Venezuela of firebrick from Mt. Union and machinery from Waynesboro are important, but they are by no means vital-just gravy . . . For every Venezuelan who buys a refrigerator, I can show you five or six Americans who are on unemployment relief and can't afford...
Reasonable Profit. The gas argument goes back to 1938, when Congress passed the Natural Gas Act to bring interstate pipelines under Government control. At that time, FPC, following the practice of setting utility rates to return a reasonable profit on the company's investment, valued gas produced by the pipeline companies according to the cost of drilling wells and taking out the gas. As a result, the price of gas produced by Panhandle was valued at only 85? a thousand cubic feet, about one-tenth of the market price...
...distribution which make U.S.-type capitalism demonstrably the best pathway to a higher standard of living. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Christopher reported on an experiment in the province of Vicenza, Italy, where a group of imaginative U.S. foreign-aiders played the trumps with signal success, to the profit of Italian management, labor and the free world...