Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...
...heard about it. At the postoffice, smart Detroiters were still able to buy postal orders for cashing in Canada at 91 U.S. cents for a Canadian dollar. The Detroiters cashed the orders in Canada. The Canadian dollars were turned in, dollar for dollar, for U.S. dollars. The quick profit...
Since the end of the war CPA has been faced with the problem of domestic v. foreign demand for goods. While OPA lived, the problem was minor. Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit...
...corporation bought 20 acres in Painesville (30 miles from Cleveland) with $11,500 borrowed from the Cleveland Trust Co. On it, Payne's company is building the houses on a cost-plus-10% basis. Estimated profit: $100 to $150 per house. Ludwig will get only $50 for selling the house and handling the paper work. The architect will get $10 a house. The Cleveland Trust Co. will give mortgages, at 4% interest, up to the full price of the house. Templeton is betting that the houses will cost less than $6,000 each. Buyers will...
...pairs of shoes a week (about half of its best prewar production). In all Bata's Zlin enterprises, stockings, tires, machine tools, etc., there were 50,000 at work, second largest payroll in Czechoslovakia (first: Skoda). And in the first half of 1946 Bata National Enterprise reported a profit of 200,000,000 crowns...