Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer or rancher is lucky to break even on feed costs, and where drought conditions exist, is losing his shirt. It takes just so much and so long to produce beef ready for market, and without price support, you're going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial lock ers. A cushion...
...brisk harness-racing industry developed evidence of payroll extortion and management payoffs to labor bosses and gambling racketeers, Sprague's name often popped up. He had owned a big slice of the Nassau Trotting Association, which operated Roosevelt Raceway. In 1946 he sold the stock for a tidy profit. Later, he bought 4,000 shares of stock (then worth $20 a share) in Westchester County's Yonkers Raceway, paying for them on the installment plan, mostly out of their own dividends...
...students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus, he hit on the idea of an Oxford-like association of small colleges. "There are a lot of students," says he. "who profit most by sitting on the other end of a log with a great teacher. But you can't have that in a large school. No college should be larger than the number of people who can dine together...
...step in the Communist plan to infiltrate young, innocent minds. What child has not heard this tale of a proletarian who robs from the rich to give to the poor? And what is more unalterably opposed to the American way of life than a communal band sharing their profit together in the woods...
...Employment Office would do little more, in its newly paternalistic position, than it now does to improve business methods, volume of sales, or net profit. Carefully screening applicants for selling positions, it would be in a better position to influence the hiring of new men. This is one of the big aims of the new policy because the Office fears that men whose selling ability outstrips their need will get job preference over those who are less effective salesmen but in worse financial circumstances...