Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melliyun-I-Iran, a clandestine nationalist gang plotting with German secret agents to foment revolt against the Allied occupiers. On the side, Zahedi was making a tidy profit by commandeering the region's wheat stocks and holding on until starving Iranians forked over a top price...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
...less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office returns on the latest 3-D films are showing a steady decline from the top grosses of such early novelty hits as Bwana Devil and The House of Wax. Because many theater owners believe the profit on 3-D pictures is not yet enough to pay off the added cost of enlarged projection booths, extra machines and extra operators, only 2,100 of the nation's 21,500 theaters are equipped to show 3-D. ¶ M-G-M may have scented a new trend...
...around such heavy taxes, many companies use deferred salary and profit-sharing plans, under which payments are spread over a period of years, and may, for example, be paid after a man has retired and has a lower income to be taxed. Many such plans pour into the Bureau of Internal Revenue every day for approval. There are even gimmicks within gimmicks; under some conditions, an executive can legally sell his profit-sharing contract back to the company when he leaves, pay only a capital-gains tax on the proceeds...
Walter not only licked the Depression but added six plants (including three in the South), and in 21 years built volume from $8,000,000 to a rate of nearly $60 million a year and a six-month profit of more than...