Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took back nothing she had said about priests, but since we were already friends, my presence would be tolerated." In time it came to be eagerly welcomed. Lulu even took to calling him "Begonia" and "my little zebra." In Lulu's he returns kidding for kidding, buys his share of drinks like anyone else, and offers advice or joins serious discussions only when others take the initiative. "There's no question of converting these people except in rare cases," says Father Baudry. "If I tried to do that, doors would be closed to me. But the people...
Though the New Republic and Antiques share the same offices, Michael Straight never interferes with the profitable half of his odd team. In fact, staffers complain, he doesn't even read the magazine regularly...
...improvised theater in an old army hangar at Willow Run, Kaiser-Frazer dealers gathered to see their company's new models. The dealers were gloomy: their share of U.S. auto sales had slumped from an early postwar 5½% to 1%; they knew that K-F had staked its entire future on the new models, pledging all its assets for the $44 million RFC loan which made the new line possible...
Next day, brawny (6 ft., 195 lbs.) Craig Royer Sheaffer, 52-year-old president of the biggest U.S. pen company, gave stockholders something else to celebrate: the company declared an extra dividend of $1.15 a share on top of its regular quarterly payment of 10?. Although the company's twelve-month sales had sagged 10% from $22 million in the previous year, Penman Sheaffer had been able to boost his previous $2.4 million profit...
...bigger profit was the result of increased efficiency and greater worker productivity which, said Sheaffer, can be traced back to the company's profit-sharing policy. From a bonus of 4% of wages in 1934, when the system was established, the bonus rose to 25.5% in Sheaffer's current fiscal year (e.g., a worker earning $2,400 a year got $612 extra). Another efficiency incentive: every worker who suggests a new method or machine for cutting costs also gets one-third of the first year's savings. Frequently, the worker's share may exceed...