Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chrysler's tax credit of $8.6 million put the company into the black by $4,065,382 (Chrysler's profit in the first half of last year...
...Union Oil Co. of California showed net earnings of $3,806,117 (v. $5,374,730 for the first six months of 1945). U.S. Steel had to dip into its reserves for $28,299,808 and apply a tax credit of $7,300,000 in order to show a profit of $24,138,541 for the first half of 1946 (v. a $32,153,373 profit in the same period of last year...
Montgomery Ward's sales for five months ending June 30, 1946 jumped 43% over the same period of 1945. Ward's profit: $23,322,369 (v. $8,401,102 for six months ending July...
Paramount Pictures reported a net profit of $21,792,000 for the first half of 1946, a 157% jump over 1945's earnings...
Tanners found themselves in a sorry fix. With leather prices (which had risen 4%) also back under ceilings, they could not process and resell their expensive hides at a profit. So they held them. But neither could they buy any more raw hides; foreign prices were too high and no hides were offered by domestic producers. Despite record slaughterings, packers were reluctant to sell...