Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing Lakes Superior and Michigan, fishermen kept one eye on Superior's net-ripping, boat-smashing winter weather, the other on OPA's profit-smashing directives...
...Though passenger revenues normally amount to only 10% or railway gross on the average, to many a road they represent the difference between profit & loss...
After the company wound up its foreign orders in 1942, the net profits dropped sharply to $11,055,000. This year they will be still lower, with the percentage of profit to gross, which was a firm 8% in 1938, now dropping below 3%. Compared to a 1938 net profit of $2,147,000, these figures are high. But despite its present position with an annual business of $1,000,000,000 and a backlog of over $2,500,000,000 (fourth largest of any U.S. company), the company had been able to pile up only...
Under such controls, industry would be expected to produce more goods at a lower unit cost, turn a practicable (and perhaps guaranteed) profit for its owners, expand Britain's world markets, produce the additional money needed to sustain life and, eventually, to raise the standard of life...
...Many industries will not have a sufficient profit margin. A demand for too much in such an industry would simply result in closing the plants. Labor, like business, must fulfill its obligations to society. The alternative is government regulation...