Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World of Profit, Auchincloss...
Frank O'Rourke, general manager and vice-president of Barnes and Noble, said yesterday that the company's lease was running out on its building and that the building's owners were planning to triple the rent. "This was a marginal profit operation," O'Rourke said, "and there isn't that much margin in textbooks...
...auto industry sold 10,400,000 U.S.-made cars and trucks in 1968, the best year for total vehicle sales in Detroit's history. Despite slightly lower profit margins, General Motors had a $1.73 billion profit, up 6% from 1967, on record sales of $22.8 billion. Chrysler increased earnings by 45%, to $291 million. Ford, which has yet to report, will show a gain over 1967, when it was slowed by a 49-day strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped...
...still uneven as the industry continued to be hurt by competition from imports. U.S. Steel reported earnings of $253 million, seemingly much better than the $172 million of the year before. But the gain was entirely attributable to the company's switchover to straight-line depreciation; otherwise, its profit would have only been $94 million. Accounting changes also contributed to profit increases at Inland Steel (up 44%), Bethlehem (21%) and Republic Steel...
...charts first appeared more than 80 years ago, when investors found that they could often trace - and turn a profit from - the operations of stock-market manipulators by keeping running graphs on the price and volume of trad ing in individual stocks. Today's chart ists have created considerable bafflegab, but they have also devised some simple patterns by which to follow the swings of the smart money (see chart) and watch for new patterns. Among the com mon signs of change...