Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular...
Farmers and businessmen unable to produce at a profit, housewives with unsettled squawks against their butchers, had made OPA a national whipping boy. The dilemma was twice dramatized last week. In Manhattan, veterans unable to get shirts marched naked-to-the-waist into the OPA office. In Chicago, a young waitress, shamelessly overcharged for a shameful room, had to run to the Administration-hating Tribune, instead of to the OPA, for a hearing (see Housing...
...near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied. All-out bidding would begin, and-before production could catch demand-prices, costs, and wages would be climbing skyward in a grand spiral. The clause guaranteeing a "reasonable profit" to producers, processors, distributors, and retailers is ludicrous; most have been making more than a reasonable profit for months. If price ceilings work a special hardship on a manufacturer, the individual case should be corrected; all ceilings should not be eliminated. Removal of food subsidies by the end of the year...
...Murray studios in 61 other U.S. cities are owned independently (mostly by ex-New York instructors), operated under a franchise system through which Murray gets 10% of the gross. Last year all this paid Murray and his wife a net profit of $500,000. This year he hopes to boost his gross to a record...
...gold. They never succeeded. Modern atomic physicists might do the trick without a philosopher's stone, but do not think the result would be worth the effort. Last week, however, scientists at the University of California announced that they had transmuted gold into mercury-and turned a scientific profit. They did it by bombarding gold (atomic weight 197) with neutrons from the Berkeley cyclotron. Its atoms each absorbed one neutron, eventually turning into mercury...