Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official: "Whatever else may be said about him, Mr. Rubirosa is, indeed, perfection itself in sartorial matters . . . The nation's men could profit by following his example...
What makes Kalighat art particularly appealing to moderns are its bold rhythms, clear colors and great economy of line. Actually, these qualities were dictated by necessity-the pictures had to be simple because they had to be done fast in order to make a profit. But, by coincidence, Kalighat painters advanced a long way on the road that School of Paris art was later to travel. They reduced limbs to the appearance of bent tubes, as has Fernand Leger, and delineated whole figures with two or three winding contours, as in some drawings by Picasso. The Kalighat Cat with Prawn...
...financial trouble. An estimated 50% of the private colleges operate in the red. At present, a large amount of corporate help covers just tuition, about half the cost of putting a student through school. Educators are also concerned about the sporadic nature of donations-a flood in high-profit years, a trickle in bad. Furthermore, too many contributions are donated for specific scientific projects which tend to unbalance the college as a whole by building up one department at the expense of the others. Universities need unrestricted funds...
...employed 2.800 by 1952. About a third were experienced Zeiss hands who managed to flee East Germany, both repelled by Communist domination and lured by the memory of their past treatment by Zeiss, which was one of the first companies in the world to provide pensions, free medical care, profit sharing, paid vacations and overtime...
Most specialized of the whole group are investment bankers, who are concerned with producing large sums of money for corporations needing capital funds. The notes for the money granted out are then sold as stocks and bonds on regular markets, making investment banking a doubled barreled sort of profit gaining...