Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts are that the Agency Corporation rents office space in a commercial building at 4 Holyoke Street, on which taxes are paid by the landlord. The Agency Corporation has a separate status, as a private, non-profit charitable corporation, under the laws of Massachusetts, apart from the University. Harvard University has no legal or financial responsibility for the Agency Corporation...
...Paper Profit. In a handsomely printed three-color booklet, Sulzberger laid out the financial anatomy of the U.S.'s No. 1 newspaper and its countingroom history for the past five years. Most startling news revealed by the report: from 1953 to 1957, fully 53% of the robust Times's profits came not from publishing but from papermaking-a 42% interest bought in 1926 in the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd. in Toronto, Ont., which supplies two-thirds of the company's high-quality newsprint. With such a solid profit foundation, the Times had seven-figure nets...
...profit margins dwindled this year, investors awaited dividend meetings with forebodings of bad news. Last week they got a pleasant surprise from some of the industries hardest hit-by the recession-steel, autos and other consumer durables. Two of the U.S.'s biggest steel companies voted to maintain their dividends, even though first-quarter earnings were below the dividend rates. Bethlehem Steel reported first-quarter earnings of 52? a share, but voted to continue paying the 60? dividend, drawing on reserves, said
...dollars which they have poured into new plants and equipment are beginning to pay off in greater efficiency. Adams told stockholders that J. & L. can soon break even when operating at only 44% of capacity. Operating at only 50% of capacity, J. & L. could make $1.35-a-share profit...
Fail Safe? Originally, said a Western spokesman, the pilots came in with 78 contract demands amounting to 2% times the company's total net profit ($2,400,000) in 1957. The demands were only window dressing for the obvious issue. When the company refused to go along with A.L.P.A.'s demands, the 263 pilots shut the line down almost completely, idling 2,103 other employees. Drinkwater defied the pilots by signing with the engineers' union, and sees no quick end to the pilots' strike...