Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's fourth* oldest strike had ended, with an estimated cost to workers of $11,744,000 in lost wages. Leon Clausen, who with federal tax refunds could show a neat $1.4 million profit for 1946 despite the strike, had given the union an unmerciful drubbing...
...Meat. The west coast countries reaped a fat profit from such wartime exports as copper, tin and nitrates, but when war ended they well knew that they would have to find trade items to replace the war babies. The Chileans had big plans for ending their dependence on copper and nitrates by industrialization. But building fisheries, power plants, and developing transportation is a long-term process, and it will cost more than Chileans can find. Like their Pacific neighbors, they need help from abroad. The question is, where will it come from...
...legal fiction of private status that the Club 100 has resorted to in defense. The private social club has every right to choose its members selectively, using any criterion it sees fit. But the abuse of this right by a patently commercial tavern, operating quite openly for private profit and not for the social benefit of any select few who gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter...
...last week Givens & Co. had expanded into four small plants with 45 employees. The 23 different products were being shipped as far as Honolulu. Sales for 1946 were $518,566.53, net profit $35,000. And 1947 looked like a good year for babies; Dee Givens expects sales...
...films. But in Boomerang! the trick is fully and perfectly turned. Also, an important corner is turned, away from Hollywood's rather monotonous dreamland, into the illimitable possibilities of the world the eye actually sees. Around that corner, many other films may follow, to everybody's profit...