Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when its pilots refused to take Northwest's Martin 2025 aloft after five of them had crashed (TIME, April 23, 1951). The line had to ground 20 planes, then later sold them. With rented planes and Government contracts to fly the Pacific airlift, the line showed a profit in 1951. But in the first six months of this year, the airline lost...
...group has not even decided whether or not a reorganized Brattle would be non-profit. Temple indicated that a new company might have a chance to make money...
...state could extend to the Council a partial subsidy towards building a station, to be repaid in air time once the station is operating. Since the Lowell Institute is a non-profit organization, there is no limit-on the amount of money the state could give, while a strict allotment of air time could easily regulate the extent of its participation...
...Mulroy resigned a year ago, shortly after he was named as one of several Illinois Democratic politicians who bought io^-a-share stock in the Chicago Downs Association and made a profit of 1,650% in two years. Mulroy's stock transactions occurred after the 1949 Illinois general assembly passed and Governor Stevenson signed a bill to permit Chicago Downs to sponsor harness racing...
...awning, you'd have to explain it to him for half an hour; tell why you wanted it on this side of the building instead of some other place." Avery also put the lid on wages, and steadfastly refused to grant such incentives as the liberal pension and profit-sharing plans of Sears ("uneconomical" is Avery's word for such frills...