Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
...five-year-old Sunday supplement Parade was the first of Marshall Field's newspaper ventures to show a profit. Last winter, aiming to keep it showing, Field went shopping for a topflight adman. At Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. he found his man: red-haired Arthur H. Motley, 46, onetime Fuller brushman, who had done wonders as publisher of the American Magazine. To help "Red" Motley make up his mind, Field offered to share Parade's ownership with...
Ragged play, in the form of three clipping penalties and a roughing-the-kicker infraction suffered by Boston's eleven, kept the third period scoreless, with Tufts failing to profit from their gifts. In the final chapter, two long runs, a 50-yard dash off tackle by Farrell and a 34-yard guard buck by Mel Friedman accounted for the last two scores. Harrison's conversion after Farrell's jaunt resulted in the 37th point...
...outstanding preferred stock. The balance it will probably use to build bigger plants, market new varieties. Prospective investors, getting their first look inside the Heinz door, saw an appetizing sight. Last week Heinz reported that sales for the year ending last April 30 were $114,150,564. Net profit, $4,052,084, one of the best in the company's history...
Universal, shrewdly delaying the picture's release, can now profit by Rex Harrison's first Hollywood job (Anna and the King of Siam), a solid box-office...