Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally stung into action, Minor Statesman May protested that everything he had done had been "for the benefit of my constituents and the war effort and of course I did not profit in any way or respect." A little more to the point was a sharp reminder to Committee Chairman Mead that Andy May had testified before a closed committee last month...
...Canada may also help fuel the U.S. inflation she fears. Her biggest exports are lumber, wood products and paper-and the U.S. buys most of them. If Canadian lumber and papermen boost prices in U.S. dollars in order to maintain their profit margins, then U.S. manufacturers may have to boost prices in their turn, and there will be more outside inflation pressuring Canada...
...trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
Another visiting journalist, France's Louis Martin-Chauffier, last week summed up the U.S.: "Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...
Promoter Mike Jacobs, who had a big reputation for knowing just how much to sock the public, counted up his $1,925,565 gate, and his estimated $163,000 profit...