Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prostitute so eagerly shaven and stripped by the impromptu courts held by French people, one shopkeeper and one businessman or businesswoman should also be given the same treatment. They, too, in their own way, have been doing business with the Nazis, the only difference, perhaps, being in the greater profit realized by the shopkeeper and businessman...
...Company 1, Dick Oster expertly swept the class into the future of air travel and kept it there while George Ottum, Jim Seale, and Sam Nikkel told us of daily transcontinental flights to the West--which was all very gay but rather impractical from a profit and loss standpoint
...Goldwyn sent his scouts into Reno, where McNeil-Naify control the five theaters. But McNeil-Naify easily outmaneuvered them. When the Goldwyn agents tried to get an option on the State Auditorium, officials refused because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning to surround...
...midyear G.M., along with the rest of U.S. business, was well aware that profit figures had become deceptive, mainly because of the increasing complexities of tax and reconversion problems. Actually G.M. made less this year, after taxes and renegotiation reserves, than last. Its profits were up mainly because it no longer needed to siphon off some $16,000,000 into its postwar fund, as it did the first half of last year. Few businessmen dared estimate 1944's total earnings on the basis of the first half. The end of the European war might make the most careful present...
American Dream. But no statistical summary of FSA profit & loss can measure the gain to U.S. society when the Wall family got their start. Clear of debt, Joe and Carolyne Wall are planning solidly for the future. Last week Farmer Wall was ready to thresh his 20 acres of oats-he figures on a yield of 40 bu. to the acre...