Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the Administrative Board, right across the Yard in University Hall, has the perfect solution. There is a tremendous reservoir of potential free maid service in institutions around Boston. At Radcliffe Wellesley, Simmons, and countless other colleges, there are literally hundreds of young maids who would not only profit from the experience of tidying room's but could be easily contacted by the students themselves, and with no fuss about Personnel offices and that sort of thins...
...mellowed limestone with a cloistered courtyard. Inside are three fine statues-of Christ, Alfonso VII and Alfonso VIII-taken from the original monastery in Sacramenia. Moss and Edgemon hope that enough tourists will pay admissions (probably $1.85 a head) to return them their investment and a long-term profit. Just to make sure, they have also added a few nonmonastic touches: a wishing well in the courtyard, piped music broadcast from a loudspeaker concealed in a tree. And even before the restored monastery was officially opened, several prospective brides had asked to be married in the chapter house...
...first time, thus making it the 31st U.S. company to pass the magic mark and become a member of the "Billion Dollar Club." Firestone's record: $1,029,000,000 worth of rubber goods and plastics sold ($64,000,000 better than 1952), for a net profit of $46,748,971, or $11.77 a share...
...broadcasting may be nearing the saturation point. The Federal Communications Commission, in a survey of 83 TV stations in operation since April 1952, reported that only 16 have an overall profit; the rest are in the red, with 67 taking losses of from $2,100 to $14,700 a month...
...Moon .Is Blue (TIME, July 6) was denied the code seal because of its lighthearted approach to sex (the script contains such words as "virgin," "pregnant," "seduction," "mistress"). The picture is making a fine profit (see above), despite the fact that 1) local censorship groups have banned it from dozens of theaters around the U.S., and 2) it has been condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, a censoring body of greater rigidity than the code and infinitely greater power over the box office...