Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we cannot look upon our diplomatic relations as a business operation, business principles seem to be in order. Basically, the purpose of any business is to profit . . . Mr. Kennan has a wise message. I believe its conclusions can prompt but one logical question to our policy makers: if we do not think of ourselves, who will? JAMES H. SELWAY, SR. Baltimore...
...Students with used books can bring them to P.B.H., price them, and put them up for sale. Thus, sellers usually obtain more for their used texts than they would get from booksellers, while the buyers usually find prices lower than in the ordinary second-hand stores. P.B.H. makes no profit on the transaction...
...undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling their land to live like kings on their real estate profit, along comes a king who wants to do some Long Island farming . . . Now when Nassau crows about its cabbages, it can add its king." The King, meanwhile, was off to Alexandria to pick up his family and 20 farmhands...
...outside accounting firm, Manhattan's Price, Waterhouse & Co., found a far different picture. After it separated the actual costs of carrying paid second-class mail from all other costs included in second-class, Price, Waterhouse reported that the Government actually made a $7,000,000 profit on newspapers and magazines...
...biggest grocery chain (TIME, Nov. 13); of a heart attack; in an elevator taking him to his Manhattan office. "Mr. John" left school at 16 to work in his father's Manhattan grocery, in 1912 set up a new kind of store based on cash & carry, low profit, big volume, fast turnover. The experiment caught on and before long the Hartfords were adding stores at the rate of three a day (today there are 4,700). A sober, earnest man dedicated to his work, Brother John left the financial part of the business to Brother George, concentrated on policy...