Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profits. Ruml bluntly reaffirms the principle that the great energizer of business is profits. But he candidly admits that "public opinion today is skeptical of accepting the highest obtainable profit as a desirable social standard." But he firmly believes that it is time the public learned that high profits are socially desirable...
...both cases the producers were unsatisfied. To the average citizen the cattle ceiling seemed like a sensible move. It was set high enough to give the cattlemen room to turn a profit, yet it still blocked runaway prices. But the cattlemen, unalterably opposed to livestock ceilings of any kind, argued that since the spread between livestock prices and retail beef prices remained unchanged, black markets would continue to flourish, and thus consumers would benefit little from the price control. Likewise the steelmen, who had hoped for more, cried that higher prices were long overdue on other types of steel products...
Much has taken place in the privatizes of our dear company since we last appeared in print. The Christmas leave was spent profitably (either in action or just comfortably asleep all day), New Year's Eve was written off as a gross loss, but the final net profit for the period won't be determined until the results of those fateful mid-terms are publicized on or about 15 January. As Herman Homer Cone says, "It isn't the marks, it's the worry and uncertainty that slays...
...Hutchins recommendations: 1) institute nationwide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot really succeed in or profit by college; 2) stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them foot half the bill for each of their veteran students...
Meanwhile the storm clouds gathered in the rural sections. Sugar-mill owners said they were unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...