Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the proposals was also a plan for a civilian survey within the camps to ascertain the number of prisoners who would actually profit by democratic education. This, too, Secretary Stimson vetoed. He declared that the War Department has for some time followed the practice of segregating co-operative from non-cooperative prisoners and that a survey could add nothing to the present information or methods. "On the contrary," he said, "it probably would create suspicion and dissatisfaction ... and defeat the very purpose you have in mind...
...magazine, Pageant, edited by Lyons, published by Hillman. To get the paper for a new mass magazine (first issue: 500,000 copies), Publisher Hillman had to sacrifice some of his old ones. He decided to jettison the detectives and comics, which have been netting $250,000 annual profit...
...terms under the law were hard. Claims can be made under 722 only if a corporation can prove that the base period income on which excess profits taxes are computed (either invested capital or "average" earnings) has been unfairly set. Under 722 the Bureau will consider readjusting the base for the "average" period, 1936-39, only if earnings were subnormal because of: 1) flood, fire, etc.; 2) a temporary economic upset such as war-caused material shortages; 3) an unusual profit cycle for the corporation, differing materially from the regular business cycle; 4) changes in products, capacity, etc., which...
...When all indirect costs (airline overhead) are added, plus profit, Boeing estimates the total cost at only 2¼? a passenger-mile, 11? a ton-mile, well under even the most optimistic postwar airline rates tentatively set for transatlantic travel (TIME...
...window-shoppers got snub-nosed: the price tags, for most people, said "touch me not." Consumers in the low-income brackets found only inadequate stocks of shabby merchandise at prices they could afford. OPA ceiling prices on cheap goods were set so low that manufacturers could not earn a profit. Thus manufacturers simply stopped making low-priced textiles, or fell back on skimping quality. Underwear production for civilians dropped to 60% to 65% of prewar output; towels to 30% of prewar volume. Headline writers missed a chance: men's shorts were short...