Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intent of Section 101 (12) was to help the farmer, forced to sell his products at wholesale prices, but to buy what he needs at higher retail prices. Congress hoped to give farmers a bigger profit by helping them to sell at retail prices, i.e., eliminate the middleman through coops. This the co-ops have done well...
Bottles to Chairs. The real Billy Rose, though not hostile to glory, is anything but fantastic. He is a shrewd, hardheaded fellow who snaps off the lights over his Old Masters when he leaves the room. But he produces for adventure as well as profit. "In six months the Diamond Horseshoe makes all the money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start...
Surprisingly, the rush of buying was started again by the rail stocks, though most of the roads chugged past their profit peaks months ago. But at the prospect of heavy war traffic for most of 1945, the Johnny-come-latelies thought there was still time to climb aboard. Even such second-graders as Illinois Central helped lead the rush that put the rails at their peak since...
...cutbacks and previous overbuying by customers, demand for self-locking nuts fell sharply during the second half of 1944. The company that earned $1,084,381 in the first six months sustained a net loss during August, September and October of $200,000. But company officials believe a profit can still be shown on the full year...
...Less Profit. OPA Boss Chester Bowles admitted all this as he gave out OPA's new plan. The complex pricing system on infants' and children's inexpensive clothes will be reduced to a dollar-&-cents basis which any housewife can understand at a glance. Furthermore, manufacturers will get a smaller percentage of profit as the fanciness of the finish increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will...