Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people he had fooled, are meaningless to him now. We read of his mother's tender care for him, her teachings and desires that he should be good for humanity and himself . . . What is there left to say but to quote the Bible: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" MRS. W. A. EDLUND Denver...
Financier Floyd Odium, boss of Atlas Corp., is famed for buying shaky companies, restoring them with sound management, and selling them at a handsome profit. This week he did it again. He sold Atlas Corp.'s control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. to General Dynamics Corp. for $8,700,000 in cash plus $910,000 in stock, more than double what Atlas paid in 1947. With that, he got ready for new "special situations," said breezily: "I've got them flying around my shoulders...
Although the U.S. aircraft industry's net profit margin is only 2.2% on the sales dollar, military orders have boosted production so high that last week three companies reported their highest peacetime earnings in history...
...wholly dissimilar Communist hope meets among the dispossessed today. But the basic Christian methods of overcoming evil with active goodness was and is in diametrical opposition to the Communist methods . . The one method helps create the world it reams of; the other destroys it ... We might all profit by a study of ... those highly mystical yet practical folk, the Quakers. (Yes, I'm a Quaker...
Last year, bucking hard for trunk-line routes, Pioneer asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to let it expand to some 30 cities in five additional states. To prove it was ready, it sold its entire fleet of old DC-3s to the Air Force for a profit of $945,537, and bought nine faster (270 m.p.h.), roomier (36-passenger) Martin 2-0-2s. CAB warned Pioneer that the Martins were too hot for small airports to handle and far too expensive to operate. If Pioneer insisted on flying the 2-0-2s, it could expect no boost...