Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powell & Pressburger obviously hope to show their gratitude for their gilded cage by turning out pictures that will make Angel Rank a nice U.S. profit. But many far less creative people on both sides of the Atlantic are already worrying their heads full-time about what the elusive U.S. moviegoer wants. If Powell & Pressburger can leave box-office problems to someone else, they might do a special favor for themselves, for Mr. Rank, for Hollywood and for moviegoers everywhere, by just concentrating on making the best British movies they...
Promoter Zeckendorf had let his U.N. site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
...better place." But in New York, almost everyone seemed pleased about it. Wealthy U.N. neighbors-to-be foresaw sky-rocketing real-estate investments. Elimination of the slaughterhouses would remove some of the soot which now makes the district the city's dirtiest. Storekeepers were bound to profit...
What went wrong? Everybody had a different answer. Mary and Charlie accused David of using part of a $1,000,000 loan from U.A. to develop story properties which he later sold as packages (that is, complete with scripts and even Selznick stars) to other companies, with profit to David, none to U.A. David said that these were his babies and he could do as he liked with them. Besides, the three pictures he had already turned in on his contract (Since You Went Away, I'll be Seeing You, Spellbound) had all grossed more than $5 million each...
Western Air Lines, Inc. has had trouble keeping its financial altitude. It picked up during the war, made money. But it lost again this year with a leaden deficit of $267,037 in the first nine months, despite a third-quarter profit. Moreover, like many another U.S. airline, Western was overloaded with expansion plans. Even after canceling half its orders for new planes, Western had current liabilities of $6.5 million and current assets of only $2.6 million...