Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting for Momote airfield in the Admiralty Islands six months ago a U.S. soldier picked up a Jap pistol. Then the profit system went to work...
Last week they canceled this price, accepted Komorowski and all his surviving partisans as prisoners of war in good standing. Obviously the Nazis hoped to profit by the political reverberations and implications of the Warsaw tragedy (see FOREIGN NEWS). The military fact was ugly enough: thousands of Poles had fought bravely and died heroically in Warsaw without advancing the Allied cause by a single mile or a single hour...
...Greek Orthodox Church, 5 million Roman Catholics, 1,500,000 Mohammedans more, rather than less, freedom. It held out to foreign capital, which Yugoslavia would sorely need when reconstruction came, the promise that Yugoslavia would be one place in the world where a man could turn a profit. This year the blacksmith's boy of Klanjec became Marshal and Provisional President of Yugoslavia...
Bankhead's efforts to squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...
...built by the Crosley Corp. for the Government to make the "Voice of America" heard anywhere in Europe, Africa, South America. Designed to compete with Axis propaganda, the three transmitters (up to 200 kilowatts) are probably the most powerful ever built. Private industry despairs of running them at a profit after the war, but the Government may have enough to say to the rest of the world to keep them from rusting...