Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under questioning by state officials, Superintendent Bearss admitted that he had invented 89 "ghost" pupils for a total profit of $13,000 to Litchfield's schools. He also admitted that he had burned all records in the case. "Without the records," he explained, "I did not think there would be much of a case...
...getting hotels to make special rates, National built up a big off-season traffic to Florida, went after the luxury winter trade with eight new DC-6s. In eleven months of 1950, thanks partly to better business for all airlines, National chalked up more than $2,000,000 profit (v. a loss of $20,000 the year before), was $381,487 in the black even before mail pay. Last week Baker got his reward: CAB dropped its dismemberment proceedings...
Last week, in its annual report marking the centennial of the first run, the Erie showed how the work of art has mellowed with age. During 1950, the Erie hauled 42,339,984 tons of freight and 11,038,075 passengers, to earn $13,455,493, the third highest profit in its history. With defense production stepping up road traffic, Erie hoped to better its record this year...
...cost of living index, were exempted. A retail sales tax would do less to force prices up than heavy deficit financing or the manufacturers' excise taxes which the Administration has proposed. A manufacturer's tax snowballs, i.e., as each middleman between the manufacturer and consumer computes his profit, percentagewise, with the tax added in, the consumer is forced to pay far more than the Government actually collects...
Under the present plan, production standards are set according to the time an average worker needs to do a given job; employees get bonuses for all work in excess of the standards, also share in a profit-sharing plan. At first the union (the A.F.L.'s International Association of Machinists) balked at the incentive scheme. But now almost everyone is happy, since employees get 50% more pay than others doing similar work in the area...