Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good years to put aside something for the lean. The Government had paid the farmer $1.35 a bushel for wheat. It sold to Britain under a special wheat deal (TIME, Aug. 5) at $1.55, and to other nations and the world markets for a variety of prices. The profit was dumped in a kitty along with profit from, selling wheat in Canada. In 1950 the kitty will be split up among farmers on a participating basis...
Arguments for Bill 993, presented by James J. Scully, Petitioner, are not only weak, but based on dangerous fancy. Calling Harvard dormitories "a non-essential of education . . . conducted for profit," Mr. Scully is inaccurate on both counts. The dormitories are not run for profit. Nothing is made from the board charges, and any surplus from the rent goes to make up deficits of academic departments. It may interest Mr. Scully that no one is throwing spare gold into the Charles. Further he says that Boston University, with a registration of 21,000, has no dormitories. He forgets that while...
...secret that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. had lost money in 1946. The only question was: How much? Last week the Pennsy gave out the dismal figure: $8.5 million (v. a net profit of $49 million in 1945). Never before in its 100-year history had the biggest U.S. railroad gone into...
...stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes . . . have sought money from the public purse to help carry out their plans, concealing as far as possible what the money was used for." Alongside this statement balance the financial statements of the TVA, which edges closer toward a profit each year. Against this claim range the close financial surveillance that Congress has maintained over the TVA, a control that was loosened only by the needs of wartime security. With this same devotion to realities, Senator Taft has seized on the appropriations for Oak Ridge and other top secret plants...
...crashes and abnormally bad winter weather, had had one of the worst Januarys in their history They had been doing none too well before that. In the first eleven months of 1946, the U.S. airlines had shown an estimated net loss of over $900,000 v. a net profit of about $20,000,000 for the same period...