Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subway's only counterpart, for measuring purposes, was London's vast and profitable Underground-a public utility with private stockholders, run by a transport board responsible to the county government. The Underground had to show a profit every year, without benefit of subsidies, or go into receivership. How did it manage...
...will into the structure of another state, should be free in its inner life. . . . [We declare] annulled all the ... treaties by which the Tsar's Government together with its allies, through force and corruption, enslaved the peoples of the Orient, and especially the Chinese nation, in order to profit the Russian capitalists, the Russian landlords and the Russian generals...
...number. But the average American today is frustrated by his inability to bet on himself....The average American can count on nothing but his pay envelope, and in bad times, sometimes not on that....He feels that he bears no direct relation to the ultimate result of the profit system when he collects none of the net profits. . . .Obviously, all people cannot own businesses of their own, but . . .they can be in the business of their employers, and take chances on the profits with them...
Collect the Winnings. Eric Johnston's own method of letting his employes* take a chance was to set up: 1) a profit-sharing plan (this year the employes will divvy up 25% of net operating profit before taxes and dividends, in addition to their salaries and wages); 2) a "junior board of directors," composed of employes who make suggestions to management on company operations...
...whimsical (and sometimes Rabelaisian) threnody is the consciousness that Bob, tireless, devoted and efficient, was patiently pioneering a successful farm out of some fallen buildings and overgrown fields. He became one of the best chicken farmers in the countryside, and after two years was making so much profit that he could think of buying a bigger & better farm...