Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within 18 months, Carthage expects to make over 246,000 gallons of gasoline a day. Carthage will be gambling a lot on a slim profit margin. It will cost slightly more than 4? a gallon to produce gasoline, which now sells wholesale for 6¼?. The company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies...
...Their first new venture, while still in college, was car building. A Cambridge company was buying new Ford cars, discarding the bodies, and building the chassis into trucks. Henderson & Moore bought the bodies, put them on old Ford chassis. The finished products looked like new cars, sold at a profit of $145 each...
...wouldn't most of the bonus go to taxes? Not at all. Stockholders were told by the board of directors: "It is believed that any profit . . . from resale of the stock would be taxable under capital-gains provisions [if held for six months] at a rate not over 25% ... in contrast to present higher tax rates applicable to ordinary income." So the stockholders gave the option plan an overwhelming vote of approval (5,300,000 shares...
...accounts of partners or employes, or in the firm's own trading account. When the public heard the issue was sold out, they were convinced it was a good buy, so they hustled to purchase, soon drove up the price. Insiders could then sell at a profit...
Rogers & Autry films, aristocrats among the Western series (in which the same stars and support appear six to eight times a year), cost up to a quarter of a million-and a Rogers film can be counted on to gross $650,000. Ordinary oaters return at least a 50% profit. Oaters are, in fact, about the safest investments in the business; their fixed gross can generally be estimated within a few thousand dollars. Of the 316 films made in Hollywood in 1944, 83, or 26%, were Westerns. Aside from the class Western, the only notable development during the past...