Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...They made a go of it, with a liberal assist from the U.S. Each year for five years, the Antibiotics Division helped sponsor a symposium on antibiotics. The technical reports presented, often by experts from Government lab oratories and great universities, were published in an Antibiotics Annual for the profit of Medical Encyclopedia Inc. That netted Welch an extra...
...moviehouses and ten amusement parks in a half-dozen countries draws tattooed headhunter warriors in Borneo, svelte Chinese beauties in Hong Kong, betel-chewing peasants in Cambodia, wisp-bearded mandarins in Viet Nam, combative Sikhs in Singapore. No one knows better than the SBs how to turn a profit from this varied audience. At a recent Singapore cocktail party, a rival movie magnate was asked who the two gentlemen in sharkskin were. Replied the rival: "Those aren't gentlemen in sharkskin they are sharks in Shawskin...
...outcome of his biggest contract, the complete wiring job for a pair of 200-room palaces belonging to Saudi Arabia's Premier Feisal. Azzam worked for a year, putting in everything from air conditioning to electric-eye doors, but had trouble collecting bills and ended up without a profit. Turning to music, he organized a combo and began picking up engagements around the Levant, hit it biggest in Lebanon with his "slow rocks," "fox rocks" and boleros...
...Profit on Oldsters. Continental lost money on its original health-insurance plan (oldsters tend to wait until they have an ailment before taking out a policy). But as the number of policyholders in the over-65 age group increased, Continental made 33% profit last year. In the trial areas for the new "5,000 Reserve" policy, more than 7,000 oldsters eagerly signed up, and in Illinois 27.2% of the 65-Plus policyholders applied for the larger plan as well. With ever-increasing volume. Continental argues that it can turn insurance for the aged into a profitable line...
...share. The week Cottier s folded the stock sold for around $5, currently sells for about $25. In the novel Ridge Warren (who little resembles Collier's Chairman-President-Editor Paul Smith) has a potential million-dollar stock option himself and is constantly torn between profit and principle...