Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...send other oilmen creeping into private life. But not Sinco. He thrust out Iris jaw belligerently, and started to come back. Overnight he made $3,000,000 in a pool in Sinclair stock. He built an 800-mile pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to Chicago, and netted a company profit of $28,000,000 by selling it to his archrival, Standard Oil of Indiana. Shortly after, he made a deal with John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had fired Standard's Colonel Robert Stewart for his part in the Dome scandal, to merge his fast-failing Prairie Oil Companies with Sinclair...
...speed of distant motion, yet be a good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...
...deep-depression 1931, when Montgomery Ward was losing money, harried directors called in Salesman Avery as doctor. In twelve years he had changed a $5,700,000 loss (1932) into a $20,438,000 profit (1943). His formula, soon discovered by avid readers of Montgomery Ward catalogues: adding new luxury lines to Ward's stock in trade. Said he: "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes." Meanwhile the number of employes has jumped from...
...balance, the deal showed a nice profit for Canada. The airfields were her own property, ready for use in the postwar air age. Technically, she was still under no obligation for Lend-Lease. And Canada was back on her own financial feet...
Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. went through the renegotiation wringer last week. The wringer squeezed out $6,322,954 from its $23,958,504 profit on its first 181 Liberty ships. Remaining profit per ship: $25,000. The Maritime Commission declared this the standard by which all yards in the original Liberty-ship program will be renegotiated. The Commission estimates the cost of Liberties at some $157 per deadweight tons v. $255 for the Hog Islanders of World War I. Builders' profits, if kept to the Kaiser level...