Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming a breeding place for mosquitoes? Yeah, fish-but not only mosquito fish, but other varieties of tropical fish that breed like mad, and then we sell the progeny to fish lovers. Now we are unique, not because of the water, but because we attain mosquito control at a profit...
...There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then go to Flurey's desperate customers, resell the nickel at another markup, and kick back some of the profit to Flug and Corey. Called as a witness, Roman himself clammed up on constitutional grounds. Flug and Corey were nowhere to be found...
Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle (Guy Mitchell; Columbia). Songwriter Bob Merrill and Singer Mitchell join forces again (earlier collaborations: Sparrow in the Tree Top and My Truly, Truly Fair) to explore the profit-making potentialities of manic, tintinnabulary repetition...
This week Don Andres Soriano, 53, had some good news about one of his biggest enterprises: Philippine Air Lines, which he runs as junior partner (28% owner) with the government (52%). Deep in the red two years ago, P.A.L. broke into the black last year with a $350,000 profit, this year chalked up a first-half net of $636,000, 33 times as much as in the same 1950 period. Next to giant Pan Am, it is now the most profitable international airline in the world. It has 43 planes, routes from Manila over two-thirds of the globe...
...government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. reported a profit of ?40,000 ($112,000) for the second quarter, the first quarterly profit in BOAC history. BOAC's methods: cut personnel (from 23,000 in 1948 to 16,000 at present), run fewer planes (70 v. 130 in 1948) and bigger ones (BOAC now operates nothing but Boeing Stratocruisers on its North Atlantic runs), emphasize personal service. Result: BOAC can now break even on 70% passenger capacity, v. the 100% required three years...