Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within 18 months, Carthage expects to make over 246,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Carthage will be gambling a lot on a slim profit margin. It will cost slightly more than 4? a gallon to produce gasoline, which now sells wholesale for 6¼?. The company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies...
Yesterday's softball games saw another forfeit, as Leverett bowed to Winthrop. In the only game played, Lowell nosed out Kirkland after a bitter battle, with a 4 to 3 margin...
Beating out Yale by a slim margin of 106 to 93, M.I.T. captured the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup in the 16th annual races held Sunday in the Charles River Basin, off its own Nautical Association Floats...
...permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest of all weapons is a playtoy of national sovereignty...
...debt in 1882 to the tune of several hundred dollars, the Crimson was forced to seek refuge under the wing of Mother Advocate (whom World War II has finally stunned). By a one vote margin of the editors assembled, the Crimson was continued. Instead of dropping its name in favor of the older publication, the fortnightly Crimson joined the fortnightly Advocate in printing on alternate weeks...