Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator at Macy's, who ordained that of her three daughters chubby Anna Maria would become an actress. "I sometimes wonder if it was worth putting her through all this," says Mrs. Italiano today...
...others, to spend 28.6% of its budget on 1,000 salesmen (out of 5,700 employees), plus other promotional activity. Research costs: 9%. Despite the high overhead, the companies are immensely profitable. The Kefauver subcommittee presented tables showing that the drug companies averaged profits of 21.4% of their net worth, compared with 11% for all U.S. industry. Part of the answer, said the subcommittee, was the pricing policy...
...share. To Transitron's owners, David and Leo Bakalar. went $34.4 million for part of their interest in the third largest U.S. semiconductor producer (first: Texas Instruments Inc.; second: General Electric Co.). The Bakalar brothers still personally hold 6.4 million shares, almost evenly distributed between them. Their total worth, based on last week's market price: $311 million...
...August 1953, Transitron got its first big order: $40,000 worth of diodes from Remington Rand's Univac division. Sales and profits have soared steadily ever since. Last year Transitron had sales of $30,913,376 and earnings of $6,456,138 after taxes, a 21% return on sales and the highest among leaders in the industry...
...from the boat, which by that time was two feet deep in month-old manure. Delfino, one of his partners, Clarence Peavy, and their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat. In all, Delfino lost about $30,000 on the first trip. "But it was well worth it," says he. "If I could go through all that trouble and still make out with the cattle in good shape, I knew it would be a profitable operation with good equipment and proper care...