Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that vantage, Jack Curtin runs Australia's Labor Government along strictly Australian lines and stoutly maintains the high-wage, high-profit economy which grew out of Aussie Socialism. Happily for Curtin and Australia, he has the energy and endurance for the job: some years ago, he gave up his heavy drinking, went on the wagon, and has been there ever since...
...TIME (Feb. 28), FARMS. It is fascinating to know that we made a 65% profit ratio in 1943, especially when I have no figures to dispute you with. However, what really makes me sizzle is your typical urban viewpoint toward farmers, as revealed in the following: "For their produce farmers collected about 20% more than they charged in 1942." Since when did we start charging? I sell about three cases of eggs a week...
Norman worked, not at a desk, but at a big table, writing longhand clearly in a remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...
...time Chuck was 24, he was Colgate district manager in Milwaukee, where he turned $80,000 worth of red ink into a profit in one year. Two years later, when he was a divisional manager in Cincinnati, Pepsodent snapped him up as sales-promotion manager ("didn't know about my age; I lied"). For four years he was promoted every year - except in 1939, when he became vice president and general manager. He stayed in that job for two years. Then he became executive vice president and, last June, president of Pepsodent. At that time, he got a good...
...ball rolling on legislation to allow minimum-price-fixing by manufacturers. Result: the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act of 1937. He also spent 51 of his first 52 weeks with Pepsodent in traveling around the field persuading jobbers and retailers that Pepsodent really meant its promise of better, safer profit margins. In his first years with the company, gross profit before taxes slumped to $600,000. Last year it was up to $3,000,000, an all-time high, and this year sales are running 11% ahead of 1943. According to a recent survey by an independent market-research outfit...