Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Planemaker Donald Douglas half-seriously announced a grim postwar plan: "Shut the damned shop up" (TIME, Nov. 22, 1943). In Los Angeles last week able, dour Donald Douglas, still in business, told his 8,763 stockholders that the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: 1) had made a profit of $8,900,000 in 1945; 2) had a backlog of $219,000,000 in military and commercial orders; 3) could expect no profits...
...Continue price controls, subject to indicated modifications for a year. Allow profit but no profiteering...
...closefisted policy squeezes every bit of profit out of industry in order that some segment of society may apparently be advantaged; the government being the sole judge of this, we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly all nationalized without a vote of the people-an economic and social revolution of greater proportions than we now realize-one that American labor will rue as much as others...
Scholastic Sports Institute, a new non-profit promotion group, surveyed 26,000 U.S. high schools, discovered that basketball is played even more than baseball and football combined. Says S.S.I.: more than 17,000 U.S. high schools have basketball teams; only 7,500 have football or track; and 6,000 baseball...
...meaning of the atomic bomb" by 17 scientists (including five Nobel prizewinners), generals and pundits, gave a preview of World War III. One World or None is a calm, hair-raising warning of swiftly approaching disaster. Americans who would like to die a natural death can read it with profit...