Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having lost a million dollars in 1942, Liberty, under new editorship, claims to be making a million-dollar profit this year...
After the meeting with himself, Chairman Weber issued a 14-line statement. A "majority" of the central banks of member nations had been represented at the meeting. No dividend had been declared (although the bank had made a handsome profit of 4,429,562 Swiss gold francs). All profits had been transferred to a "special suspense account...
...Enactment of either of the two proposed amendments would mean the end of effective price control and would inevitably result in general inflation. . . . Senator Taft has picked out a profit standard which would raise manufacturers' total profits far above the record levels even of 1944. . . . Senator Thomas' amendment [is] write-your-own-ticket pricing which would be wholly unenforceable...
...paper, they seemed reasonable-but far too technical for the public to understand. The first, by Ohio's arch-conservative Robert Alphonso Taft, would guarantee to manufacturers and processors the same dollar margin over costs (i.e., profit) they received in 1941. The second, by Oklahoma's silver-haired Elmer Thomas, would allow processors of farm commodities to profit on virtually every single item instead of just on overall operations, as now prescribed by OPA's pricing policies...
...More sensationally, Stu Symington sat down with Bill Sentner, boss of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers in St. Louis and one of the country's few Communist labor leaders who frankly calls himself a Communist. Together they worked out a successful labor-management plan, adopted a profit-sharing program...