Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses (TIME, April 7), the deal, if the stockholders approve, means accepting a subordinate position. President Charles W. Perelle will stay on as head of the new company's bus division. But boss of the whole shebang will be Paul E. Reinhold...
...biggest general store in the world, Sears, Roebuck & Co. knows that it pays to take good care of its 190,000 employees. Long a leader in the field of human relations, Sears has one of the most liberal pension and profit-sharing plans in the U.S., feels that through owning 24% of the company themselves, the employees are bound to work harder for it. Now Sears has another plan to benefit employer and employee alike...
David R. Jackson '54 of Winthrop House had his bike stolen and returned within the space of six hours Monday night and made a nickel profit in the process...
...urge to sing together is almost primeval for the members of the University's oldest (1946) informal singing group. It's brought them profit as well as pleasure: what once was in danger of degenerating into a drinking society has now sold out two issues of recordings and will have to press another batch next fall to keep up with the demand. The singing urge is infectious, the Dunces say, and anyone who has seen some of them start harmonizing over a glass of beer at the Wursthaus and wished he knew their songs, will agree. Moreover, the weeks...
...examinations there would strain Harvard's keep-temptation to-a-minimum policy. But this danger is only present in courses whose exams require terse and short answers. Since final exams in most courses are of the essay type--it takes more than a quick wandering plance to gain any profit from a neighbor's essay--this objection is quite limited and easily overcome...