Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unions are fighting him tooth & nail. Last month they claimed a victory when the War Labor Board ordered him to continue a union contract at San Francisco's Hotel Cecil. But The Voice had already dodged out of range by selling the establishment (at a neat $60,000 profit) a month before. Undeterred, the unions last week were pressing cases against other church hotels in which salaried workers have been replaced by Bell's un-salaried employes...
Crumbs of Loot. Cried Mohandas K. Gandhi last week when he heard of the trip: "Big merchants, capitalists, industrialists and others speak and write against the [British] Government, but in action do its will and even profit through it. ... [Independence] will come only when interests, big or small, are prepared to forgo the crumbs that fall to them from partnership with the British in the loot which British rule takes from India...
...tracks joining the pony parade: ¶ Race-hungry Hollywoodish Santa Anita had planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help to man the mutuel windows and hot-dog stands, settled for an unceremonious start on V-E day plus seven. ¶ Non-profit-making Keeneland will usher in Kentucky's season. Colonel Matt Winn hemmed & hawed, regretted that unbeaten Pavot was not among the 155 Derby eligibles, finally scheduled the 71st Derby for June 9. ¶ Baltimore's Pimlico planned to top an abbreviated ten-day meeting with...
...immensely enjoyed taking over bits & pieces of broken-down railroads in the Deep South, linking them together, and making them work for a profit. The end product of this patient toil is the prosper ous 1,970-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rail-foad Co., that links Mobile and New Orleans with East St. Louis...
...young promoters (in their early 30s) whose other interests range from slot machines in Los Angeles to horse racing in Mexico. At the time they met Yordan, in the spring of '43, they had already made a couple of pic tures. Though they had realized a respect able profit, they did not receive the ac claim they had somehow expected. Their deal: Yordan would contribute "class" and a third of the money; in return they would give Yordan all the freedom he wanted (all there is), and 'a one-third share of the business. Result: between King Bros...