Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their satisfaction at the end of war work was that shrewd, cantankerous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, 62, had got a running start on peacetime business. From where he sat, he calculated that he could hold the number of workers at 8,000, and still keep the company operating at a profit on commercial contracts...
...Government would have no truck with radicalism. Said cheery, aggressive Minister Howe: the emphasis of its plans would be on the unfettered operation of free enterprise. War time taxes would be eliminated or at least reduced as soon as possible, to provide plenty of opportunity for private profit. There would be no splurge on public works. Private investment would be encouraged by low interest rates, and by loans from Government lending agencies. Wartime anti-inflation controls would be kept only for "a smoother, more rapid transition to a prosperous peacetime economy." Minister Howe named specific aims...
Saga of the Pork Chop. Early in the war, when Government agencies asked the farmers to raise more hogs, they were promised a reasonable profit. To make sure they got it, OPA clamped a ceiling on the price of corn (averaging $1.07) and WFA put a floor price of $13.75 cwt. under the hog market...
...farmers joyfully went to work. In 1943, for a fat profit, they raised 122 million hogs-nearly double their prewar annual average production...
Claughton's chief complaint: no dividends were paid out of the fat $6.1 million profit earned in 1944. Since 1941, Sloan has poured Katy earnings back into the system by making $89 million of improvements to physical property, and reducing funded debt by $36 million. Yearly fixed charges have been cut $1.8 million...