Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often the projects are so new and so uncertain that no sane board of directors will make such a guarantee to deliver results. It follows that many contracts must be "cost plus a fixed fee," in spite of the risk to the taxpayer. Since the contractor does not profit by keeping costs down, he is tempted to permit abuses-from loafing to large-scale inefficiency. In shadowy AEC-land, screened with secrecy and rippling with money, a crooked or careless corporation might find easy pickings...
...first place, the names of the contractors read like the social register of U.S. industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They are careful about security, quality of work, and costs to the Government...
...Teheran, the U.S.-dominated World Bank offered to put up the money to reopen Iran's oilfields and refineries. Iran simply had to agree to a three-way profit splits-with equal shares for the bank, Iran, and for the oil purchasers (principally the dispossessed Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.). But Premier Mohammed Mossadegh wants no deals involving Anglo-Iranian; he gave the bank little welcome...
...selling feed in his mother's feed, seed and fertilizer business. When he couldn't sell the feed to the poor farmers of the area, he borrowed $6,000 from a local bank, raised a flock of chickens on the unsold feed, and sold them at a profit...
...Mille's scripters and actors enter into the thing in the proper flamboyant spirit. Determined to extend a ten-week itinerary into a full season, Charlton Heston, the circus' gruff but devoted manager, promises his reluctant bosses (including John Ringling North himself) to show a profit. He imports Sebastian the Great (Cornel Wilde), a daring high-trapeze artist, thereby queering himself with Aerialist Betty Hutton, who must move out of the center ring. Betty starts a performing feud with Wilde, goads him into a fall that cripples...