Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flowing Gold. Standard Oil of New Jersey turned in a whopping $71,000,000 of estimated profit at midyear compared to $48,000,000 for the same period of 1943. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. netted $20,000,000 v. $15,000,000, Sun Oil Co. pocketed $7,800,000 v. $5,700,000. Eyeing this flowing gold, many a Wall Streeter boldly predicted that the industry may boost its year's earnings 40% over 1943. Cracked one oilman: "We're almost ashamed the way the money rolls...
...Steel, which had a bad fourth quarter last year, made a lusty comeback, reporting a net profit of $32,382,533 for the first six months compared to last year's $31,086,053. But it did this by shipping more steel than in any first half-year in its history. Bethlehem Steel kept pace with Big Steel, netting $13,166,381 v. $12,842,000. But the smallish Pittsburgh Steel Co. provided the market-shocker. Its fat profit of $1,021,524 of last year turned into a dismal loss of $72,901 this year...
...crackdowns on New York enterprises, battling Mayor LaGuardia had more or less left the nightclubs alone. Some time last spring he decided to correct this oversight. The Mayor put his city auditors to work on the nightclub books to see if they were making a profit on the city sales...
...supply most of the postwar loans made for reconstruction and development, the effect of the Bank will be to make the rest of the world foot the bill for over 65% of the losses, if any. Aside from the obvious American gain under this arrangement, the world gets a profit too. For, with the Bank's guarantee, lenders can afford to lend more than they otherwise might. Thus there will be $9.1 billion of capital available for reconstruction and development by the countries which need it badly. Compared to the amounts that may eventually be needed, this amount...
...Chief of Wall Street, Tighter strapped the belt of wampum, "My world bank for reconstruction Must be on a wampum basis." So they reasoned as they wrestled, While they both exclaimed together- "Let us order world finances, Let us keep away inflation, Let us stabilize exchanges For the profit of the people...