Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant of the field (circ. 3.900,000), the magazine crams its 124 to 188 slick pages with national ads, moony love stories and how-to-do-it articles (samples: how to re-string pearls, build cabinets, read faster, eat on a low budget). But A. & P. takes little profit out of its Woman's Day. The cash is put into more color pages and better copy to dress up the lure for shoppers...
...smaller steel companies, with a more favorable tax base, turned in some impressive rises. Wheeling Steel's net shot up from $2,998,696 to $5,043,744, and Barium Steel turned a $95,836 loss into a $1,875,509 profit...
Information on travel regulations for men of draft age was made public by the Council on Student Travel. The council is a non-profit organization which coordinates the efforts of 50 groups interested in sending students abroad...
...four Natural Science professors are particularly in favor of the new building and stand to profit the most from it. The Burr Lecture Hall is designed particularly for "dramatic demonstration of laboratory experiments before classroom groups...
...achieved such efficiency that last year it earned about 14% ($187 million) on its $1,297,000,000 sales. (In 1951's first quarter, it boosted sales 40% and net 9% over the same 1950 quarter.) With an additional $120 million in G.M. dividends, its 1950 net profit rate reached an astounding 21%. Obviously, G.M. provides a great many of the chips which enable Du Pont to take its 20-to-1 chances on research...