Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Bonneville Power Administration, in distributing government power, enforces the lowest power rates in the country, private companies still make a good profit...
...general reduction in taxes on business. The corporation tax rate, now 20% on the first $10,000 profit and 50% on profits over $10,000, will be lowered to 18% on the first $20,000 and 47% on the excess. The change will cut some companies' tax bills by as much as 49%. Shareholders' dividends will be 20% tax free instead of 10% as in the past...
Crazy Man. In a low-paid business, Price shocked some colleagues by raising pay and setting up profit sharing to spark incentive. He shocked other bankers by using billboards and big newspaper ads to build business, and astounded reporters, who had never been able to get the time of day at Peoples' before, by telling them: "The door is always open, and I'll tell you anything I can." Some crusty oldtimers at Pittsburgh's potent Duquesne Club began wondering about "that crazy...
Overall, Douglas had its best peacetime year. Sales, 87% military, were $522.6 million, more than double 1951's $225.1 million. Net profit was up ($10,792,285 v. $6,912,829 in 1951) along with dividends ($3.75 v. $3.50 in 1951). Only ratio of net income to sales fell, dropping from 3.1% in 1951 to 2.1% last year...
Need for a provision clarifying the club's status with the Bureau of Internal Revenue was one reason for the revision of the constitution. The original constitution contained no clause stating the club was a non-profit organization...