Word: profits
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Eventually, Griffiths turned the lion to his own profit and found a good home for it. He and Sidney Franklin Jr. wrote an original story about the lion which M-G-M purchased. The movie was produced under the title Fearless Pagan, with the lion playing the leading role. For a review of the film, see CINEMA in this week's issue...
Camrose's Amalgamated Press Ltd. published 73 magazines in 1951-52, with a total circulation of more than 14 million, and made the biggest profit ($3,700,000) in its history. With quiet understatement, Camrose noted a few other triumphs: Six months ago "we launched Lion, the second of our postwar weeklies, [and] its sale is today well over 550,000 . . . Woman's Weekly . . . before the war . . . was just over 500.000 . . . Today it is more than...
...Bite. In the electrical industry, for example, Westinghouse reported a 19% rise in gross (to $357 million) and a slight gain in net (to $16 million). Giant General Electric, on the other hand, had a slight decline in sales and a 20% drop in profits to $28 million. The profit drop, said President Ralph Cordiner, resulted from G.E.'s high proportion of defense orders, on which profit margins are small. In all cases, the impact of taxes was enormous. Radio Corporation of America managed to boost sales 22% to a record $142 million, but was able to hike...
...also shaved many earnings. Union Carbide's net was down 20% to $23 million, and DuPont's firsthalf sales were off along with its net ($2.12 per share v. $2.20 in 1951). On the other hand, fast-expanding Mathieson (TIME, July 21) racked up a 9% profit gain to $2,900,000, and drugmaker Parke, Davis, which has been able to turn a profit for 75 consecutive years, reported record first-half sales of $71 million (up 3%) and record earnings of $10 million...
Caught by rising costs, he could never bring the price below $800, and even then his profit margin was slim. Crosley production hit a high of 28,000 a year, then skidded. In the last three years, Crosley Motors, Inc. has lost $1 million a year; Powel Crosley has had to pour $3 million of his own money into the company to keep it going...