Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years passed, Zukor bought up hundreds of theaters; he imported Sarah Bernhardt's film. Queen Elizabeth, and made an unheard-of profit of $20,000. Then he began plugging away at moviemaking, hiring famous stage stars to act before the cameras. His movie company, Famous Players, later became Paramount Pictures Corp., and Adolph Zukor became one of Hollywood's first tycoons. For the past 15 years, as chairman of the board, he has been content to spend most of his time in Paramount's Manhattan offices. But last week he was the toast of filmdom...
...right now its function is strictly limited to learning how to make money through investments. A year long competition is now in progress to see which member, each of whom has theoretically "invested" $10,000 in stocks, can accumulate the greatest profit. Future plans include actual investing of the club's money. Weinberger expects the formation of the members into a legal investing partnership to provide an even keener interest in the club...
...McCarthy forwarded funds from his anti-Communism contribution account to a friend, who bought 30,000 bushels of soybean futures and realized a profit of $17,354.50 in less than three months. The subcommittee's questions: Were not the fight-Communism contributions trust funds? Did McCarthy have confidential information on the soybean-future market, which was then being investigated by the Department of Agriculture...
...reproaching man for being what he is and what he has always been. ... No, there is nothing to get indignant about against anybody; neither against businessmen for whom profit is the big thing, nor against politicians who also have a business which they must lead to success . . . their re-election . . . Institutions do not change because men do not change. The day after the greatest catastrophe in our history [the fall of France], we had lost sight of this truth; the clean sweep gave us the illusion that everything would be rebuilt anew. I who have never placed hope in politics...
Said the report: "The extent to which the profit motive has brushed aside all generally accepted standards of decency . . . has become a national disgrace...