Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar Hoover said the Miami gang had been making a profit of $15,000 to $20,000 a month; three of the scalpers were even planning to buy a hotel with their swag...
...Utilities. Even the utilities, which long ago were thought to be bumping against ceilings both as to capacity and profit, came through with a surprising rise. Commonwealth & Southern rang up $12,312,000 v. $10,375,000 in 1942. But giant A.T. & T. had harder going. To boost its net some $13,000,000 to $177,769,000, it had to heave up its gross nearly...
...remarkable feature of the 1943 farm income was the sum the farmers managed to carry over to net profits. Despite soaring feed costs and fabulously high wages demanded by the few workers available, the U.S. farmers' net profits-out of a gross of $19 billion-are estimated at $12.5 billion. This 65% profit ratio scared the economists. With the farmers jingling so much inflationary money in their pockets, some economists fear another runaway land boom...
...Rubber Development Corp. raised the price of "Acre-fine" wild rubber from 45? to 60? a lb., handed over supervision to the Brazilian Government. Jungle-baffled Americans had got less rubber out of Amazonia than they had hoped. Native rubbermen predicted that jungle-wise Brazilians, seeing a profit in the higher price, might beat the record production of the rubber boom 32 years...
...Benedict was the first to bring discipline and order to these monks. From among his disciples he formed twelve monasteries of twelve monks each (in memory of Christ and His twelve Apostles). St. Benedict lived in a 13th abbey with "a few, such as he thought would more profit and be better instructed by his presence...