Word: profits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fight inflation, which had shrunk the franc to one twenty-fifth of its prewar value. Bring down prices, not by dirigisme (the Frenchman's word for government controls) but by persuading the big industrialists and the countless Antoine Pinays of France to be content with more reasonable profit margins. Balance the budget, not by his predecessors' resort to higher taxes, but by slicing expenditures and borrowing on a businesslike basis. Seduce out of hiding the estimated $4 billion in gold concealed in the socks of French peasants and petits bourgeois...
...world's fastest-growing fortune. But as the strong-minded boss of a closed family enterprise, the count himself is the only man who knows, and he is not inclined to say. His consolidated statement for last year indicated that his firm rolled up a gross profit before taxes of 831,864,738 cruzeiros ($43.4 million). Thanks to Brazil's easygoing tax laws, which take only 17½% of dividend returns, Majority Stockholder Matarazzo's income for the year soared high into the millions even on this somewhat sketchy accounting. Yet the count works day & night pyramiding...
Theater managers, too, were warily happy; the performance lured a special audience into their show places, and some of them even showed a profit. Theater Network Television, which arranged the showing, recognized its mistakes, thought it could clear up line troubles next time, even if it couldn't make dark scenes on the Met stage come through bright...
Perhaps this will help in the egghead discussion: 1) an intellectual is a person who is well-informed and intelligent; 2) a liberal intellectual is an intellectual who espouses liberal political programs; 3) an egghead is a person (possibly intellectual) who for profit, publicity or in the search of power espouses liberal political programs...
...apprentice before joining his father's furniture company. In 1933, when the furniture industry's average loss was 14? on the sales dollar, Sligh decided to start a company of his own. With a partner and $14,000 capital, he astounded the industry by turning a profit the first year, has never since recorded a loss. Two months ago, when the A.F.L. Upholsterers International Union tried to organize one of his companies, he called a meeting of employees, and turned it over to the union organizers to make their pitch; when they were done, Sligh answered them point...