Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reaction and fascism in China are strong. . . . This is proved . . . by the diversion of part of our national army to the task of blockading and 'guarding' the guerrilla areas, by the fact that some still hold private profit above the national interest, by the oppression of the peasantry and by the absence of a true labor movement. . . . Some Chinese reactionaries are preparing [civil war] to destroy a democratic sector in our struggle. That sector is the guerrilla bases in North Shensi and behind the enemy lines...
Wartime prosperity even caught up with the New York Stock Exchange. In the red for six years (to the tune of $816,000 in 1942), the Exchange last year actually turned up a comfortable profit...
...York Curb Exchange showed $121,855 profits-the first profit since 1937. Curb trading increased during 1943 by nearly 50,000,000 shares. Seats on the Curb Exchange are now selling for $8,000; in 1929, they cost as high as $400,000 apiece...
Russell is infectiously cheerful. He does not use a dog or cane. "On a quiet day," explains Coach Eddie O'Donnell, "Bob can hear a tree." He likes to fish and plays poker for profit with Braille cards. Some weekends he hitchhikes from New Haven to Manhattan...
...took over Sprague, Warner he found that it was staggering along with some 50,000 descriptive labels because of the traditional practice of buying up trade names when wholesale grocers go out of business, and keeping the names. He dumped all but some 5,000 fast-moving items. Other profit-losing ratholes were plugged, and Sprague, Warner-Kenny made $311,465 in profits last year on its gross of $32,000,000, a good return for the low-profit but quick-turnover wholesale grocery business. This year, Cummings expects his merged companies to gross $50,000,000 while supplying...