Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for voluntary price reductions with piddling action to date. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray accused industrialists of "actual racketeering" and "organized robbery...
...logic is twofold; first, the graduate work is in many respects repetitive, and therefore the student might profit more by exploring other fields of study, secondly, the graduate work, though repetitive, is quite different in its approach, and the student must frequently abandon his theoretical concepts in the face of the practical application, or else reconcile the two. For graduate study in Economics proper, undergraduate concentration is of course essential...
...forming a joint policy that would apply in all dining halls. Should the Masters adopt the drastic Lowell House formula, every one of the College's threescore extracurricular organizations would be placed under a tremendous handicap, and it is doubtful that the student body as a whole would profit by an enforced isolation from activities in which it already takes far too little part...
...most writers have offices and secretaries of their own; the average reporter's salary is about 1,500 to 2,000 rubles a month ($282 to $376). It takes a staff of 430 editorial workers to get out the four-page paper, but even so Pravda turns a profit for the Communist Party...
...round off a busy week, Bob Young reported that Alleghany Corp., the top investment-holding company for his railroads, had turned a tidy net profit...