Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussed. Barring some new kind of economic or political magnetism, neutralism will become an even greater factor because of the risk of military involvement with either of the ICBM-armed powers. Certainly, statesmen will be able to approach the labyrinthine problems of disarmament from a new basis, once all profit is gone from world...
Last week Dr. Clifton E. Moore, director of television for the Los Angeles Presbytery, took to the air himself to warn against the danger of the profiteering electronic evangelist. Said he: "The television industry and the respected denominations in your community have this in common-they both have an enemy. This enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters...
...have suffered enough from those Catholics in name who have exploited the field of political service for their own profit and advantage," says Roman Catholic Bishop John King Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio, in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, The Ave Maria. The corrupt Catholic politician, he continued, "is neither Catholic nor a politician. Speaking bluntly, he is a cheap crook who uses the faith as another gimmick to help get him into the lush field of easy pickings...
...business." Collier's (circ. 3,772,079) lost $7.5 million in 1953, $4.5 million in 1954 and $1.5 million last year, and Smith expects losses to be no lower in 1956. Woman's Home Companion (circ. 4,117,734), which was making a profit until 1953, has lost more than $1,000,000 in advertising in the last six months...
...newsmagazine. Smith already has added a phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double its business by the end of this year to an estimated $22 million in annual sales, and the company as a whole was able last year to show a small profit. "If we could have the magazines...