Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply of Little Blue Books; Admiral Byrd took along a complete set to the South Pole; Franklin P. (Information Please) Adams is a steady customer. For kings and commoners, Haldeman-Julius has one inflexible rule: cash in advance. He grosses around $500,000 a year, but the profit on the average Blue Book is a bare two-tenths of 1?. Even so, Haldeman-Julius, though still a talking Socialist, can indulge a taste for champagne and crepes suzette, keep up a 160-acre farm...
...industry, king of last year's profit parade, was still doing all right. But with crude oil once more in surplus and prices again competitive, the industry continued to slide from its boomtime peak. Phillips Petroleum's net dropped 40% from $36.5 million to $21.9 million, Socony-Vacuum's from an estimated $71 million to $47 million, down...
...airlines fulfilled their predicted jump into the black (TIME, July 18). Eastern Air Lines' $2.1 million net was up 63%, Northwest Airlines' $430,915 profit helped offset a $2,016,000 deficit in 1948's first half...
Some textile men, who know how thin American Woolen's profit margin has been, doubted if the new prices would do much more than let the company break even. But Pendleton hoped to get some relief from bigger volume. In any case, it would cost American Woolen less to keep its mills in operation than to shut down for lack of orders while maintenance costs...
...from considering himself the world's smartest mule trader, last week was beginning to wonder what he was doing in the deal. EGA estimated that he would still gross about 153,765 drachmas ($15.25) a mule, but Mahmout, who had been doing a lot of traveling, thought the profit figure would be pared sharply by his expenses. Missouri's Ferd Owen agreed. Said he: "It was a pretty close deal. I don't expect to make much on it, but I think the Turk will make even less...