Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post at auction in 1933 for $825,000, has had trouble building it up. It made money during World War II, then started to lose again. But under Phil Graham, the paper's operating chief since 1946, the Post has pulled out of the deep red, made a profit in 1952 and doubled it last year...
AMERICAN Woolen Co. will ask its stockholders to approve a merger with Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Corp. As a combined operation, troubled American Woolen (1953 sales, $73,494,160; net loss, $9,476,981) and Bachmann Uxbridge (1953 sales, $52,609,000; profit, $272,000) would be by far the biggest woolen manufacturer in the country. Textron, Inc., which wants American Woolen to merge with it, and claims to own almost 4% of American Woolen's stock, plans to fight the merger...
...your recent editorial "Movie Moguls-Home Grown" you enunciated two principles which I find odious, and must take issue with. These are (1) the United Nations Council and the Liberal Union are engaged in "profit-making" activities in their film ventures; and (2) that Ivy Films is the only group which has a legitimate reason for showing films on campus...
...Profit-making activities are defined by the United States Treasury according to the nature of the organization, not the activity. Inasmuch as the United Nations Council is a non-profit organization engaged in an educational function its activities by definition cannot be considered "profit-making." I imagine the same applies for the Liberal Union...
...lost her interest in money) and Juan (who has forgiven her for it) decide to start life anew together-"a boy and girl, simple, delighting each other, happy under cloudless skies." To keep the clouds away indefinitely they have-from Anneke's mining operations-a handsome financial profit. And so, after magazine rights, bookstore orders and reprint contracts, does durable Clarence Budington Kelland...