Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...analysis does not include "indirect costs" of operating a commercial space line-maintenance, administration, advertising, ticketing and profit-but its authors insist these charges should parallel standard airline operating expenses. All costs included, the estimated price of a round-trip ticket to the moon would be $900-about $40 less than the current first-class jet fare from New York to Paris and back...
...civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities." To remedy the fertilizer shortage, commune dwellers are being urged to raise pigs for their own profit, following the slogan: "More pigs, more fertilizer; more fertilizer, more grain; more grain, a future infinitely beautiful...
...first half. When charged against first-half earnings, the write-off left Lockheed with a six-month net loss of $55,409,000, biggest in the aircraft industry's history. But by writing off "all our present, past and future losses," Gross hopes to speed Lockheed's profit recovery.* For the past six weeks, Lockheed has been operating profitably, hopes to cut its overall loss to $45 million by year's end. With a tax rebate and an estimated $30 million in earnings over the next 18 months, Lockheed expects to wipe out the loss completely...
...races, he obtained permission from Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse, turned up at the track in a felt hat, suede shoes and a striped suit, puffing a cigar, and proceeded to clean up. The ungloomy dean won six 55? bets in eight races for a total profit...
...greatest fringe benefits, PX branches stock up to 30,000 items, sell everything from underwear to refrigerators-all at cut-rate prices designed for the private who earns only $78 a month, the master sergeant who earns $310. Yet the PX earns money, last year made a $60 million profit on sales of $895 million-and is doing even better...