Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors, hardest hit by strikes, showed an operating loss of $101 million before taxes. But a tax credit of $81 million brought G.M.'s net loss down to $19,804,090 v. a net profit of $110,957,383 in the first half...
...reply to a dormitory investigation committee report that room rental fees have contributed a profit of $40,000 yearly to the Institute's income since 1937, D. L. Rhind, bursar at M.I.T., said that this money was used to help pay salaries and other operating expenses...
...maintained a consistent policy of favoring wage increases to meet the higher cost of living for labor and increased subsistence allowances for veterans. We fought to stem inflation by government regulation. Why should we permit our standard of living, our chance for an education, to be reduced for the profit of selfish business interests...
...kept alive in an incubator by tariff protection? An interdepartmental committee, headed by popular red-faced William L. Batt, wartime rubber czar, tried to answer these questions. Its answer to all of them: No. The Batt committee hoped to turn the war baby into a healthy, unsubsidized and profit-making private industry...
...General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free, How Dear to My Heart, All in Fun). Workers on all other projects would have...