Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record turnover of 120,000 instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year, a gain of 500% over rock bottom 1932. Some pianomen thought this increase was traceable to more attractive "streamlined" cabinets, others to the general revival of installment selling. But all were sure that they would run out of materials before the year is up if the present buying wave continues...
...showing- $10,000,000 for the quarter, $18,000,000 for the half. Last year the company earned $3,400,000 in the June quarter, $4,000,000 in the six months. Chicago's Inland Steel, the sixth and least enthusiastic member of "Little Steel," reported a good gain for the half ($8,187,000 as against $5,232,000) but its June quarter showing was nearly $2,000,000 below the $5,000,000 earned in the previous quarter...
...same six months of 1936. C, National Biscuit Co., which has been feeling the pinch of cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...half compared to $1,203,-ooo in the same six months of 1936 (both figures before Federal taxes). C, "Sales have continuously risen ^each twelve-month period for four years," de- clared General Foods Corp.'s Colby Chester in announcing half-year profits of 18,000, a slight gain over the same period of last year...
...June for the first time since Recovery set in, residential building failed to show a gain over the year before...