Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they finally and firmly assert prior Government interest in all land and its uses, and subordinate all private interest to the Government. Silkin's bill revolutionizes the whole basis of tenure and use of British land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present use or sell it for any other use without Government permission...
...native aspen, jewelry out of native silver, clothes out of mountain sheep's wool, cheese from the milk of local cattle. It will be no accident, however, if Paepcke, whose Container Corp. does some $75,000,000 worth of business a year, also turns Aspen into a tidy profit...
...knows better than experienced Europeans that all armies misbehave and profit where they can. There is nothing peculiarly American in that. Most nations dislike other nations. The recipients of charity forever dislike their benefactors...
...Although inflation and food shortages have recently played into Communist hands, Communism finds its greatest asset in Latin America's feudal, low-pay, high-profit economy which keeps the people in squalor and ignorance...
Something for Fishermen. To get it, most of them had joined the fingerling Fishermen's and Fish Handlers' Union. Three months ago the union demanded that the "lay" (split) of each voyage's net profit (i.e. net after deductions for various operating costs) be changed from the traditional 50-50 lay to 60% for crewmen, 40 for owners. Also demanded: a redivision of operating costs...