Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cuthbert Clegg and his fellow dissenters vainly insisted that the profit motive would be incentive enough for millowners to switch to modern methods. "There is little incentive," they said, "to be found either in monopolistic capitalism or in free enterprise fussily fettered by the state...
...grossed a whopping average $50,701 a week (a Broadway repertory record), and had made nearly $5,000 profit. The guests will get half, the hosts half...
...Pont, the management of the $347,000,000 Government-owned plant at Hanford, Wash. Although the three great piles in the Hanford desert were built to produce plutonium for bombs, their byproduct is unharnessed energy in enormous quantities. G.E. will run the piles at cost plus $1. Its profit will be in priceless experience...
...months ago, the House chose the first course. Its bill would wipe out all food subsidies, guarantee every producer and distributor a "reasonable" (and undefined) profit margin, and end price controls whenever production of an article reached the 1941 level. That combination of pressure-group policies would raise the indexes a good 25 percent at once, with further sharp boosts to follow as output really begins to flow. Establishing 1941 supply s the norm looks good at first sight, but on closer examination resembles an attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer...
...time he was made president of Pepsodent in 1943 (at $100,000 a year plus bonuses), Luckman had boosted the company's annual gross profit before taxes from $600,000 to nearly $3,000,000. He plugged one thing, Irium (patented name for sodium alkyl sulphate, a cleaning agent), picked the right man to help do it. The man: Bob Hope. Luckman spotted him in a Broadway musical, offered to sponsor him on the air if he would tone down his smart-alecky manner. Hope refused. But after he had flopped with another sponsor, he meekly went back...