Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privately owned industrial center. By 1948, practically all the government plants, except some unconvertible explosives factories and the $75 million Polymer synthetic rubber plant at Sarnia, Ont, had been sold. The explosives plants are useful now in the rearmament program; the Polymer plant has been earning a steady profit for the government since...
Yale instructors and assistant professors will profit most from the increases, but minimum earnings have been boosted all the way up the line. The minimum salary for faculty members...
...marriage between cousins seven times removed, and, for the first time, makes divorce possible -though still very difficult-for Hindu women. Wrote Brahmachari: "The Hindu Code Bill will ruin religion, confuse castes, undermine the authority of the Scriptures, damage Hindu culture, split every family, pit brothers against sisters, and profit only lawyers." Nehru, he said, is "a black Englishman [who] studied in the West . . . and is so stuffed with its ways that he wants us all to adopt Christian customs...
Last year, when the Middle East blazed with disputes between oil companies and kings over royalties, Aramco announced a 50-50 profit split with Ibn Saud, increasing his 1951 oil royalties from $60 million to $100 million. Other oil companies, particularly Anglo-Iranian, privately deplored such generosity, but belatedly offered to do likewise. American-British-owned Kuwait Oil Co. had to give Kuwait's Sheik an even better split, and American-British-Dutch-French-owned Iraq Petroleum topped that by agreeing to bring Iraqis into the board of directors...
...Hollywood rat race, bought the Crier for less than $1,800, when it had a mere 1,800 circulation and was losing money. He went out soliciting subscriptions and ads while Betsy did most of the reporting and writing. Now the Crier yields Norman and Betsy Rose a tidy profit of almost $10,000 a year...