Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inclined to believe that you really don't want war; you just want the phony boom conditions of a war without actually fighting one . . . Remove the pecuniary profit from your private armament making and we wonder how long your recently acquired international morality would survive...
...useless without a machine. He is no disciplinarian, and this helps because a disciplinarian would be powerless in a party which is looking for an excuse to fly to pieces. Nor is he a statesman; this, too, is a virtue because the party, at the moment, stands to profit most by keeping quiet. Lyndon Johnson is a political operator. He senses political situations, understands individual motivations and moves swiftly to organize party positions by reasoning with individuals on an individual basis. As a result of long and careful study, he knows exactly how his fellow Senators will react...
...Advertising Age (circ. 24,201) was tough to buck. Four months ago, its owners switched it from weekly to fortnightly to keep costs down. Last week they sold Tide (circ. 14,000) to Billboard, a trade weekly of show business, which hopes to supply enough capital to turn the profit tide for Tide...
...dedicate station KUHT, the first noncommercial education TV station in the U.S. Commissioner Hennock rejoiced that, after 3½ years of work, "we're showing the scoffers, we're showing the world" that "education must have its own stations. You cannot mix free education with the profit motive...
...side at the right time. The son of a poor truck farmer who lived in Turkey, Bodo attended school for only a few months at the age of nine. Later he taught himself to read and write (and to speak four languages). He developed an eye for a quick profit at an early age, while driving a donkey to market carrying his father's produce. At 16, he started a flour mill. Business flourished until in 1914 Bodo was drafted. Though he got a medical discharge within a month, it was too late to save his mill...