Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadened the definition of "national security" to include "economic welfare," making it possible for just about any industry, even makers of beer mugs or rhinestones, to claim that its profit position is vital to the U.S.'s security...
Business was so good that the gross topped $2,250,000 last week. The producers paid off the $300,000 nut to 200 investors within four months of the opening, are now grossing $70,000 a week, of which $19,000 is clean profit. More than 20 different Music Man recordings are selling like pinwheels on the third of July. The marching band arrangement of Seventy-Six Trombones is already on the music racks of more than 6,000 brass bands across the U.S. And the ultimate recognition-from the business world-is already at the stage door: toy manufacturers...
...Politicians in the provincial capital of Dacca, where goats wander in the unpaved streets, argue that it makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan has received on a per-capita basis three times the U.S. aid given neutralist India). Nor are East Pakistanis much agitated over Kashmir, because if Kashmir were absorbed by West Pakistan, it would...
...bigger the business, the better it has resisted the recession. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission reported last week that in 1958's first quarter, small businessmen suffered the worst profits pinch. For manufacturers, the annual rate of after-tax profit to stockholders' equity...
...costs that the Government is working hard to instill in its contractors. The Government offers contractors 20? of every dollar they manage to save under the contract price of an item. But no sooner is the incentive payment dispensed than it can be demanded back as excessive profit. As Boeing's Allen says: "By all odds the most unenlightened aspect of the whole renegotiation mess is that it ignores how good a job you're doing-how many dollars per pound you're saving the Government by beating cost figures." In seven years of producing...