Word: profitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noninflationary" profit-sharing plan; under this, all company profits (before taxes ) in excess of 10% of capital invested would be sliced up to give 25% to employees (other than executives) and to refund another 25% to auto buyers as rebates...
...toward raising the $24 million strike fund to $50 million. They hopefully added a feature Reuther had not asked for: in case a strike does not come off, the extra assessments will be refunded. Though there were optimists who believed that under cover of his distinctly inflationary profit-sharing plan Reuther would be able to bring home some more good old-fashioned inflationary pay raises. Detroit generally believed that, with the auto industry in trouble, a lot of U.A.W. members might have to hit the bricks first...
Boldly, Adnan Menderes set out to alter all this-at first by his announced program of relying on free enterprise. He rewrote Turkey's laws to encourage foreign investment by such means as easy profit transfers and the promise of generous exploitation terms to anyone who found oil. He encouraged private investment in textile production and light industry. Among his first acts was abolition of the rigid import controls that the Republicans had established at the beginning of World War II. The consequence was that the Turks, starved for almost a decade for the products of Western industry, began...
Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...
...Underpowered for a big jet, it has a range of less than 2,000 miles. It lands fast (up to 150 m.p.h.) on weak brakes, often overshoots runways. It gulps so much jet fuel that it would probably break a private line. But the Reds want prestige rather than profit, are willing to let the state-owned line fly in the red for years to come...