Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roving life, but he liked ships. So he settled down in the Navy's construction corps, left it after ten years to join Newport News. It had been established 19 years before by railroad-building Collis P. Huntington, whose aim was to "build good ships here, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships...
...write; each winter his revue runs for two or three months in Montreal and Quebec. The revues now fetch some 130,000 customers - in Montreal ten times the audience of any other show. They cost him a reputed $75,000 to produce, net him around $50,000 profit - and shut down the minute the house falls below 90% of capacity...
...Profit Control. Chester Bowles asked that OPA be given power to control commercial rents, barber shop and beauty parlor prices. OPA, or some other federal agency, should also be given authority to curb the boom in real estate. He brushed aside the charge that OPA is trying to control profits, saying: "We have no interest in profits except in cases where a price increase is requested...
...French announcement was all news to Du Pont, which has no plants in France, was not sure how it could have made money there. But in Paris, a Finance Ministry official said checks totaling $8,000,000 were already en route to those who would profit by France's gesture...
...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...