Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest rate would be 2% (the U.S. Treasury, which can borrow for less, would make a profit at this rate); ill-prepared Britain would have to plunge again into fully competitive world trade and cast off her sea anchor, Empire preference...
Apparently certain financial interests had been attempting to get control of Eldorado's uranium and to sell it, contrary to wartime metals regulations, for private profit. There were, moreover, reasons to suspect that attempts had been made to form an international uranium cartel involving Eldorado and Belgian Congo uranium interests. To get at the facts, a Toronto chartered accountant, J. Grant Glassco, had been appointed last May as chief investigator...
...from businessmen. In Washington he had used his veteran's priority to buy a DPC-owned fleet of 14 surplus Conestoga twinengine cargo planes for $401,000 ($90,000 down). He promptly got most of his down payment back by selling six of them for a profit of $80,000. Then National Skyways Freight Corp. took...
...wartime expansion and technological improvements, the company could grant the 30% rise and still make a fair profit without raising its selling prices. (If the company could prove otherwise, said Reuther, he would gladly scale down his demands...
...gloom, the U.A.W.'s smart, redheaded Walter P. Reuther stepped up with a typically procrustean solution. Could G.M., said he, with a meaning look at the entire industry, prove that it could not grant the U.A.W. increase and still sell its cars at 1942 prices with a "fair" profit? If it could, then the U.A.W. would modify its demands...