Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country...
...face it: mass-media newscasting [April 26] is now the global version of that old game, let's you and him fight. For profit, politics or publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism...
Little Comfort. Probably to create an illusion of progress, Kaunda recently nationalized 24 companies owned by foreigners and cut to 50% the amount of profit a company can take out of the country. Most of the nationalized companies were retail outlets, breweries or other small businesses that he eventually plans, in the second stage of his "revolution," to turn over to cooperative management by blacks. Big foreign producers, such as the British-American copper companies, were not among those nationalized...
...pollution, a Japanese process can be used to convert fly ash into cinder blocks. Since the market is too small for commercial success, public subsidies would make sense; recovering waste at the source is almost always cheaper than cleanup later. There are some real prospects of profit in reconstituting other waste. Take sulfur, for example, which is in short supply around the world. While 26 million tons are mined a year, smokestacks belch 28 million tons of wasted sulfur dioxide, which could easily be trapped in the stack and converted to sulfuric acid or even fertilizer. Standard Oil of California...
...Ford, with record first-quarter sales of $3.9 billion, up 36% from last year's sluggish first period, earned $222 million-an 84% increase that beat General Motors' 17% profit rise (to $457 million) but not Chrysler's impressive 280% jump (to $69.3 million) over the same quarter last year, when it was hit by an unusually severe combination of higher costs, lower sales...