Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tomorrow. None of this had discouraged ebullient Mr. Jack. No matter how much stock his associates cash in, he is still well heeled. On an initial investment of $100,000 in 1940, Jahco has piled up a wartime profit of $4,135,881, after taxes. This gives Bill Jack plenty of confidence to talk enthusiastically, if vaguely, of the wonders to come in his "plan for tomorrow," when Jahco opens again. His plan includes an annual wage to all associates and a quarterly division with them of 50% of all profits. His associates, now trying to find other jobs, hoped...
...Edison produced 6,000 ranges a week. Turnbull hopes to reach this output again by midwinter, and exceed 1941's peak next year. With his sights set so high. Turnbull was sure he could turn a profit at the OPA prices...
Fourth Best. What Robert Young had got from the Van Sweringens was: 1) the profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...
Slow Start. This sudden interest in the Export-Import Bank, and the volume of prospective loans, was something new to the Bank. In the eleven years since its creation, it has loaned only $612 million (at a profit of $43 million...
...made the letter public, without the courtesy of sending a copy to Roy White. In it he suggested that it was high time the B. & O. paid back the $82 million still owed the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Reasoned Senator Wheeler: since 1939 the B. & O. has made a net profit after taxes and interest payments of $100 million, plus a bookkeeping profit of $35 million from the repurchase at bargain prices of its bonds in the open market. Finally Wheeler charged that "Wall Street speculators have made a huge killing in the B. & O. stocks . . . there has been a frenzied...