Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petrillo contends that Interlochen is a commercial proposition, because the boys & girls pay a fee. Dr. Maddy says it is a non-profit educational corporation, but that tuition is necessary for expenses. The broadcasts were non-commercial except for the 1930 season, when Dr. Maddy got permission for a commercial program. The sponsor then had been Petrillo's union...
EARNINGS The Way Down? As the flood of year-end earnings reports tumbled from the ticker last week, the evidence piled up that U.S. industry had passed the war's profit peak...
After a year and a half of liberation, Sicilians were half-starved, wretched, rebellious. The Allies' swift but grueling Sicily campaign had razed many of its towns and villages, reduced its food supplies to a bare existence point. What grain they had been able to grow, the profit-minded Sicilians had sold to the Roman market at handsome prices. Hunger and discomfort (shoes cost from $70 to $100 a pair) had fed the fires of rebellion and separatism. Separatist leaders, like the politician Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, had kept them stoked. When they died down a little, the Italian Government...
...have learned lessons-at a fearful cost-and we shall profit by them...
...Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot succeed in or profit by college, and a plan to stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them feet the bill for each of their veteran students...