Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heidt kept on counting out the bills-150 of them. When he had finished, he took out an envelope and wrote a bill of sale on the back of it. Contratto signed it; Heidt hired him as his manager. In a year, the ballroom netted a profit equal to the sale price...
After twelve peacetime months in the red, the biggest U.S. automaker finally turned the corner. General Motors, said President C. E. Wilson last week, made a small profit in July, will probably show one for August. But things were far from good. For the year as a whole, G.M. would still be in the red. Charlie Wilson met the press in Detroit's Statler Hotel and told why. His plain talking was characteristic, and significant, for G.M.'s troubles are the troubles of most U.S. mass production industries...
...Inkograph Co., Inc., producers of $2, non-capillary pens, last week burlesqued the extravagant claims of ballpen makers. The claims had brought in the customers. Reynolds Pen Co., one of the most extravagant claimants and originator of a pen it calls the Rocket, last week reported a handsome net profit of $2,678,815 for the year. Are ball pens that good? Some might be (Eversharp reported a normal 3% on returns). But thousands of Reynolds buyers would answer: No. In its annual report, Reynolds noted that $110,000 had been set aside to cover guarantees on its pens...
...Domingo Peron. But the star of the show was a private U.S. citizen with an outlandish name, Sosthenes Behn, razor-sharp president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. For the third time in five years, he was giving U.S. businessmen a lesson on how to liquidate foreign investments at a profit...
...modest, unpainted four-room house atop a narrow headland overlooking Japan's Ago Bay, a wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...