Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleared by the Defense Department? Ike replied that printing and releasing it publicly was obviously a "blunder." Then he defined what he thought the Government's information policy should be. Said the President: "Everything ought to be given out that helps the public of the United States to profit from past mistakes, to make decisions of the moment . . . But . . . it doesn't help any of us to make a decision merely to know that a plane can fly 802 miles instead of 208. That is a secret we should not be giving out. And that is the kind...
...appeared that 1955's first quarter was the best ever for many U.S. corporations. The combined first-quarter earnings of 484 corporations was 27.2% higher than for the same period a year ago, dividend payments to stockholders were up 6%, and only 17 companies failed to show a profit...
...chalked up notable progress. Last week, in its biggest single step to eliminate competition with private business, the Government sold 24 of its synthetic rubber factories. Thus, with a pen stroke, it turned over to 15 companies virtually all of a $310 million industry, and netted a $39 million profit...
...gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit to the U.S. of $1,100,000. In the Virgin Islands the Government sold its rum distillery (Government House brand) and its famed resort hotel, Bluebeard's Castle...
Once, Avery launched into a disjointed discourse that rambled on for 27 minutes. A stockholder wanted to know why President Edmund Krider was being retained in view of Ward's steady profit drop. Avery turned away in bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...