Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most remarkable figures in thoroughbred racing is France's stout carelessly dressed Germaine Vuillier 71, the grandmotherly breeding manager behind the traditions and the profit of the famed Khan family stables. In recent months Madame Vuillier's success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that...
...third major network, and it was competitively necessary to match its frank and potent mediocrities. What really bothered the NBC brass was not Crosby's charge of mediocrity but his suggestion that the network is not making money. As part of the parent RCA, NBC's profit-loss figures are never released, but management insisted that NBC as a whole is doing better financially than ever...
Critic Crosby stuck to his guns, bolstered by Madison Avenue critics who claim that 1) network profits have indeed fallen off over the last few years; 2) in their pro tests and handsome profit claims, the harried executives were evidently referring to the entire NBC company with all its properties-notably the money-coining owned-and-operated stations-to disguise the poorer returns from the network operation as such. "I will now retire from the financial page," said Crosby, "but, by God, I am right. The real point I was trying to make in that column was that being mediocre...
...firefly's light as a love call-but are both baffled and fascinated by its heatless, chemically generated properties. As of last week a chemical company, Schwartz Bio-Research Inc. of Mount Vernon,N.Y.,had found a happy way of 1) letting children turn their firefly chasing to profit, 2) putting firefly tails to practical human use, and 3) offering hope that science may soon solve the longstanding puzzle of the little white-fire insect...
...days, a corporation was expected to stick to what it knew best. But stringent antitrust laws now discourage fast-growing companies trom mergers with companies too close to their own fields. Result: many companies are forced to move into an entirely different line in an effort to increase their profit margins. Once :hey have made such a move, they find it even easier to continue diversiying. Providence's Textron, caught in the ailing textile industry, has set a record since 1955 of 29 mergers into such fields as electronics, automotive parts, aluminum products and optical equipment. Textiles, once Textron...