Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the opposition to the elimination of plasma comes from the scores of blood banks that make a profit out of plasma. They can extract it economically from outdated whole blood, which cannot be used after storage for 21 days, keep it indefinitely and ship it easily. Most of them lack facilities for extracting serum albumin, and would have to buy that. But if they do not ship across state lines, federal regulations cannot touch them. Meanwhile, the number of federally reported cases of serum hepatitis-a miserably lingering and debilitating liver disease, sometimes fatal-is running at double...
...often, Shaw hoped to shake his readers up, and succeeded brilliantly. The Preface is witty, and it is blunt; moreover, it is utterly serious in content. And it has lost none of its punch in a half century. Anyone interested in religion can profit from trying to match his mind against Shaw's here...
...Profitable Options. Stockholders can opt to trade a share of Container Corp., worth $38 at week's end, for a $45 share of convertible preferred stock in the yet-to-be-named holding company. Or 49% of them can have a $55 debenture paying 61% interest for 20 years-a security that analysts figure could be sold immediately for a tidy profit. Wards' stockholders can swap only one share of Wards for one of holding-company common stock, but they have a strong incentive to do so. Container Corp.'s profits of $32.9 million last year were...
...Disadvantage. Competitive pressure prompted the invasion. At least a dozen U.S. securities firms have begun operating inside Germany in recent years, attracting increasing numbers of German investors to U.S. corporations. German banks, for whom securities' underwriting and trading is an important source of profit, found themselves at a disadvantage because they had to pay commissions to U.S. brokers when buying American stocks for clients...
...American Motors, whose stockholders learned last week that the company made a net profit of about $4,000,000 in the third fiscal quarter compared with a loss of $17.9 million last year, had a 16.6% sales increase over 1967's Jan. 1-June 20 period. A.M.C.'s volume has been helped by the sporty Javelin, with sales...