Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser-Frazer Corp. has not yet produced a single car on a production line. But last week it stood to make a "paper profit" on additional stock, which it has not yet issued, either, that flabbergasted the most get-rich-quick Wall Streeters...
...week's end French prices (black market and legitimate) seemed stable. But the 150,000 U.S. troops still in France fluttered in a profit-taking frenzy. They held some 420,000,000 francs for which they could get 1,000,000,000. No one was sure who would pay for this windfall. The knowing bet that it would be Uncle Sam's Treasury rather than Minister Pleven...
Trainer Lipiec's horses frequently go to the post as long shots (10 to 1 or better) and with surprising regularity pay the kind of money $2 betters dream of. At Gulf stream Park this season he has run 47 horses, won eight races for a profit of $106.20 on a $2 flat...
...argument that industry should pay higher wages because it had made a net profit of $37 billion during the war made no more sense than an argument that labor should take less because it had been paid $405 billion in wages & salaries. Both had profited from...
...Benefits for labor, including employe profit-sharing in industrial earnings...