Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intend to stick with it," was the official word on the 10-percent price slash at the store. "Our customers are all pleased that we have followed President Truman's voluntary price reduction program, and the resulting increased volume of sales has more than made up for our diminished profit margin...
...hopes to encourage sound new enterprises by providing cheap and plentiful power. He wants private U.S. capital to help, and to take a fair profit. But he wants no exploitation. Says he: "History shows that foreign private capital fares best when working side by side in the same enterprises with Mexican capital...
...later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
...Sociologist. He had opinions about labor. In 1914, the country was flabbergasted when he established an unheard-of minimum $5-a-day wage and a profit-sharing scheme. Good pay makes good workers, he said. Well-paid workers could buy more cars. So many thousands stormed his gates for jobs that Ford officials had fire hoses turned on them. But there were moral strings attached to the profit-sharing. He appointed the dean of St. Paul's to see that the money went into wholesome food, Ford cars, etc.-not into liquor and riotous living...
...believed in training youth. When Martha Berry, the famed Southern educator, asked him to contribute to her schools for Georgia mountain children (the story went), he sent her $1 with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies...