Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campuses, Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., "the country club of the Air Corps." He was also back in the education business, this time in a private way. Barton Yount was president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, newly organized as a nontaxable, non-profit educational corporation...
...Expediter Wyatt had done little that seemed likely to relieve their supply worries, said the builders, he had done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
...Childs had met and married in Hawaii. The observatory, for which the Carnegie Institution had leased 15 acres for $1 a year, was required by its lease to keep its grounds open to visitors. But the toll road and the hotel atop the peak had yet to make a profit. Said Childs: "This place ought to carry itself...
...rent regulations, it was discovered by the investigation committee, offer no protection, because their codes do not cover living quarters in charitable or non-profit institutions...
...last year, President Charles P. Skouras of National Theaters Corp. also managed to earmark some money for luxuries. On a proposed resale of some National Theaters stock which he bought two years ago for $353,125, Charlie Skouras was all set this week to take in a toothsome profit...