Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of income, as opium has been traditionally their source for trade goods. They get a low price for it, the profit going to unknown people further down the drug train...
...earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with the consumer. The companies reported total net income up 140% over the first half of recession 1958, while average earnings per share of the eleven rose...
Apples & Pears. Rarely has good news been presented with more furrowed brows. Big Steel's Blough astutely cautioned that high second-quarter earnings reflected "an unusually high demand artificially stimulated by our customers' fear of a steel strike." Comparing current earnings with profits in recession 1958, said Bethlehem's Homer, was comparing "apples and pears." Republic's White called his company's second-quarter record "to a major degree a result of robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize...
Besides this, Group 20 has had seasons of high artistic success and still lost money. And Falk's finest season was the one that put him most in the red. So let's not drag in the bogus issue of profit and loss...
...vanguard of earnings from the nation's struck steel companies confirmed estimates that steel had had a record half-year. Inland Steel doubled its earnings for the half to $2.43 a share, but was outshone by the performance of other reporting companies. Allegheny Ludlum raised its half-year profit 802% to a record $3.20 a share, Jones & Laughlin hiked profits 642% to a record $5.31 a share, and Crucible Steel ran up a new record with earnings of $2.22. Seeking to explain the high steel profits, Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams pointed out that steel mills...