Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center for Field Studies is a non-profit unit which carries out studies on all aspects of education. It has already done surveys of the systems in Taunton, Waltham, Ipswich, Pittsfield, Dalton, Southbore, and Gloucester...
...Relapse, a Restoration comedy, sponsored by the Theatre Guild. These should have given the Brattle prestige to attract angels and revenue to pay the debts. But the inexperienced Brattle businessmen found they had signed contracts for certain properties and had forfeited play rights to such an extent that the profit disappeared and they left New York with little more than they had brought in. Moreover, the prestige they won did not draw any outside help...
Some industries were still far below their 1951 level (notably textiles and coal mining-each off 49%), but textiles had already begun a recovery. And the television industry, bouncing back from its slump, reported aggregate profit showing a 361.1% rise. Rearmament helped some other big rises: 105.7% for aircraft manufacturing; 99.3% for electrical equipment...
Good Mixture. As American President's new skipper, Davies plans no radical change of course. He will keep the line's President George Killion, under whom the company turned a profit of $3,200,000 last year. But Davies thinks American President has a still brighter future, hopes to mix his oil and water businesses together. His oil company has six tankers, now chartered out to other companies, which American President may well take over. If & when his Middle East oil concession starts producing, it will have a potential customer in American President, which uses 15,000 barrels...
...Manhattan's East Side, with the idea of putting up a big housing development. The deals paid off: the Waldorf, once deep in the red, is now well in the black; the Manhattan land, soon sold to the Rockefellers for United Nations headquarters, made Crown a $600,000 profit on his $2,000,000 investment...