Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making fools of ourselves in the way we handle prisoners of war. I don't believe in browbeating them, but in most places they are getting luxurious treatment. . . . The Germans think it merely an indication of our weakness, and are planning to profit on it in the next war as soon as they are able to fight...
...TIME'S editors will continue to read Author Graves's historical deductions with pleasure & profit...
Down Meat. Another example of high volume, low profits: the packers. On sales of about $1,600,000,000, Swift netted only $15,900,000- about i%. On nearly the same gross sales, Armour could not do even that well. Its profit of $11,300,000 was only three-quarters...
...normal times, a sizable drop in gross meant a sizable drop in net. This is no longer true. Example: Hercules Powder Co. had its volume trimmed by "shifts in war production" so that its gross profit was cut by $7,910,000. But its tax bill dropped also, some $6,050,000. Thus, net profits were down only...
...Hilton is red-faced, reticent ex-Bricklayer Stephen Healy. A contractor at heart, Healy was an uneasy owner of the $28,000,000 lakefront gargantua. But Hilton's obvious passion to own the place made Healy stifle his own eagerness to sell. First, he wanted $500,000 clear profit on the $5,281,000 he had paid the Army for the Stevens, and the $800,000 he had spent on furnishings. Then he coolly upped his profit demand to $650,000, then to a million, finally to $1,500,000. Hilton groaned and swore, but Healy stood fast...