Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bellingham's supermarketmen have been taking it longer than most because their city's lumber and fishing industries slipped early. Pilferage soon shot up over 1% of gross sales, took half of food retailing's narrow profit. The desperate grocers screwed up collective courage, got police to start arresting guilty customers and releasing their names to the press. Theirs was one of the few open moves against a corrosive crime that already takes at least $250 million worth of goods from U.S. supermarkets each year...
...hazard. He shot a double-bogey six. Leonard chipped steadily away at par. When he finished the round, Leonard had a total of 275, lowest in tournament history. Casper had 276. That one stroke difference earned Vancouver, B.C. Veteran Leonard 10,000 silver dollars; it brought an $84,260 profit to California's Carl Anderson, the veteran Calcutta player who had bought...
...skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners. Chaplin and Pickford. could not agree on how to run it. Krim agreed to take over, but drove a hard bargain. He and Benjamin got control of the company for nothing. If they turned a profit within three years, they were to get half the 20,000 shares outstanding at $1 a share...
...backs many U.A. films. To get movies for U.A. to distribute, Krim bought the distribution rights for 200 films from Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion B-picture company, swiftly sold them to distributors for cheap, middle-of-the-week pictures. Within four months the company turned a profit, and Benjamin and Krim got half the stock. U.A. bought out the rest later, issued $17 million in stock and convertible debentures a year...
...Young's planned revamping, and Alleghany common has risen almost 15%. Last week the Superior Court of Rhode Island agreed that Mrs. Anita O'Keeffe Young, widow and sole heir, could exercise (as executor) her husband's options at $3.06¼ per share. Paper profit at its current value ($5.12 per share): $200,000 minus 25% capital gains...