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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...TIME'S editors will continue to read Author Graves's historical deductions with pleasure & profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: The Way Down? | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: The Way Down? | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Biggest | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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