Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company, finding itself unable to operate at a fair profit after granting an increase set through bargaining, may go to the Office of Price Administration after six months and ask for a lift in its price ceilings...
...country is entitled to expect that industry and labor will bargain in good faith, with labor recognizing the right of industry to a fair profit, and industry recognizing labor's need to a decent and sustained standard of living...
...this bookkeeping profit did not conceal the fact that steel company earnings are down. U.S. Steel Corp. was a better bellwether. Steelmen estimated that its net profits in the third quarter will be down to around $12,000,000 v. $16,800,000 last year...
...facilities, etc.), came up with a $27 million deficit and thus cut its taxes so much that it had actually overpaid them in the first part of this year. This tax credit was more than enough to offset the deficit in income, thus gave Bethlehem a reported net profit of $2.05 a share, or 38? more than in the same quarter last year...
...Reward. But artistic integrity had more than its own reward. By going independent-and by an artistic use of the capital gains tax-they could also make money fabulous even for Hollywood. A corporation can hold its picture for six months, then sell it and call the profit a capital gain, taxable at 25% instead of 85-95%, the top tax on ordinary income. A producer can either 1) sell his interest as a stockholder in the corporation; or 2) dissolve the company that made the picture. An example: Independent Producer Lester Cowan, who made Story...