Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporations are still doing fine. But the profit line chalked out for them by taxes, price ceilings and increased production costs has taken a downward dip for many. The National City Bank's profit figures on 300 leading corporations, for the first nine months of 1944, showed: a 6% increase in profits, after taxes, over the similar 1943 period, with combined sales up 11%. Of the 300 companies, 140 reported higher profits this year, while 160 were down...
...wives at the Navy Supply Corps School organized the Navy Relief Sewing Circle, $3459 has been raised for Navy Relief through dances sponsored by the group for personnel of the School. Mrs. Kenneth C. McIntosh, wife of the Commandant of the school, originated the project and has seen the profit of the dances grow from an original income of $153 to over $838 at a recent affair in Potter Hall on October...
...Miami he is taking an estimated $500,000 yearly profit on a $2,500,000 stake (plus $1,000,000 that eliminated the late Moe L. Annenberg's Tribune from competition); has boosted circulation from...
...last week the liquor brought into the local market by the chain of pistol sales had pulled down the price of whiskey in the Admiralty Islands to $45 a bottle. And everybody was happy-everybody had made a profit...
...Transport Command, promised also to cut the present flying time from New York to London via Foynes to 22 hours 40 minutes (New York to London without interruption). Said Mr. Frye blandly: "We are not cutting rates for the sake of cutting, but because we can operate at a profit at these rates...