Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Characteristically, Phil Murray said nothing about examining the steel company's books or debating the ins & outs of the profit system. He simply wanted a $2-a-day raise for his men, to keep their take-home pay around its $56-a-week wartime average. He firmly believed the companies could pay it without raising prices, but he would just as soon not argue the point; prices were a matter between the companies and OPA. And the $2 figure was subject to compromise anyway...
...manger role. Instead of making BOAC efficient, it punishes U.S. airlines for their efficiency. Efforts to negotiate an Anglo-American air agreement have been blocked by Britain's insistence on rate regulation by fixing fares on the level at which the most efficient operator could make a profit. Pan Am said that this was exactly what it was doing...
...with a river boat company. Fifteen years later, he bought the controlling interest in the line. In 1942, Dodero founded Compaña Argentina de Navegación Dodero, which now operates a fleet of 333 ships. Last year war cargoes brought Dodero's company 19 million pesos profit...
...Congressman doubted that the bill would ever pass, if for no other reason than that it meant more taxes. Among those who hoped they were right were 1) the bulk of physicians, who mortally hate & fear any more entanglement with government; 2) the many privately managed and non-profit associations for hospitalization and medical care which are rapidly spreading their health service over the country and financing it from employes' voluntary payroll deductions...
...earnings of the steel industry in the first nine months this year, said he, were "well in excess" of the profit yardstick of 1936-39- Based on current operations, earnings "would be in excess of this standard for the full year." He brushed away the demands of Big Steel that price increases should be given now, on the basis of present earnings. Cutbacks in war contracts, said he, had made present operations in the industry abnormal. They would not be back to "normal" until early in 1946. At that time, said Mr. Bowles, the matter of a price boost would...