Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular with its fans that thousands of infants are being named Machiko and Haruki. An estimated two of every five Japanese girls wear turbans of white wool, just as Machiko does. The book version of Kimi has sold more than 500,000 copies. The movie made a record postwar profit of almost $700,000, and three top studios are battling for the rights to a sequel...
...produce the car. A pudgy (240 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.), moon-faced engineer, he climbed up through the auto industry working for Studebaker, Dodge, Chrysler, then took over Kelvinator Corp. in 1927, at a time when the company was overexpanded and losing money. Mason turned the losses into profit, then had the job to do all over again in 1936 when Kelvinator merged with Nash, which was losing $1,000,000 a year. Poking quietly around the plants, talking directly to workers rather than through memos, Mason bolstered Nash with new models, jacked up dealers, cut Kelvinator prices...
...allows film showing in tax-exempt buildings only if the pictures are not shown for profit and are of an educational nature. At the present time, undergraduate exhibitors violate both regulations. Although films are not so lucrative this year as in the past, profit is still the only reason that groups like the Liberal Union or the U.N. Council show pictures. And movies like Topper and Arsenic and Old Lace can hardly be considered educational...
Actually, only one organization, Ivy Films, has a legitimate reason for showing films in University buildings, for Ivy alone claims an interest in the motion picture as an art form. Political groups and special interest clubs should not be allowed to use tax-exempt facilities for profit. And because of the exemption rules, Ivy Films must revise scheduling policies to keep its films on an educational and not a commercial plane...
...spend their strike pay in the saloons, their families do without, the merchants grumble. Only two men really enjoy the strike: George Morgan, a young miner spurred by idealism and an itch for leadership, and Owner Quint, who also owns just about everything else in Gerindery that pays a profit, including the paper that Mike Lambert runs...