Word: profitable
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...other words, Nathan concluded, U.S. corporations in 1946 made a "lavish profit," and show every sign of continuing to do the same in 1947. Therefore, industry can grant labor a substantial wage boost without raising prices. The total boost could be $5.1 billion for workers in manufacturing plants-in percentage, 21% ever present rates. U.S. business as a whole, he figured, could grant a 25% boost...
What Is "Fair"? Nathan's sweeping "projections" did not consider industry's condition in detail. There are 420,000 U.S. corporations, and not even Nathan would claim that all of them showed a profit. But his report was enough to make them all targets of labor's new drive. C.I.O. leaders denied this, but the report was hardly out when the U.A.W.'s peppery redhead, Walter Reuther, announced a drive for a 23½?-an-hour wage rise in the automotive industry...
...fair return, who is to say what is "fair"? Industry depends on good years to carry it over the bad. Only about 50% of all U.S. corporations, on an average, make a profit in any one year...
Second, and from a more practical standpoint, good hockey teams are built by skating, not coaching. This is demonstrated, assuming all men to be created equal, by the consistant superiority of northerly prop schools and colleges and the number of Canadians in professional ranks. The Varsity could profit from a large number of undergraduates skating regularly from their Freshman year...
Americans might profit from this intelligent, if unoriginal, view of their cultural well-being. But the Soviets who must rely on "Lzvestia" for all contact with America will not be benefited by this pre-occupation with its maladies and Ehrenburg's textbook remedies. And if friends of peace left that the visit of the Russian writer ushered in a a period of greater understanding, the articles in "Izvestia" will cause a cold shower of disappointment...