Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lone investor paid $2,550 for 100 shares of American Distilling Co. stock on Thursday, Sept. 30. If he had happened to sell out at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, he would have made a gross profit of $4,150. Even if he held on-which is much more likely-he would have ended the week with a paper profit of $3,725, almost half of it chalked up during last week's five and a half days of trading. Despite this dizzy boom, he might well think his shares were not overvalued...
...soon found that the big profit was in selling his patented studs. He began to hand out a new model of his gun to old customers on a replacement basis for $50 -the actual cost of materials. In the last 19 months, Ted Nelson's profits have been a fat $407,000, all plowed back into plant expansions and repayment of loans...
...first week, the market grossed $800, made a neat profit. Within a month coupon-weary housewives so jammed this pointless paradise that the gross zoomed to $1,500. Now the market does a $2,000 weekly gross, has brought Hart many offers to expand. Last week, he turned them all down. He feels that more stores would keep him too busy, give him little time to sit back, puff at his pipe and chortle at his fellow grocers, sore-eyed, weary-fingered, thumbing over hundreds of stamps through the nights...
...Publisher Condé Nast and a good section of his office force. Nast later wrote, in an office memorandum: ". . . In time, however . . . we derived a very considerable benefit from having published such. In fact, a portfolio of our prints . . . scored so great a success that we netted a handsome profit...
...postwar inflation is lessened by the fact that price control today has been "fair" rather than "perfect"; 3) the admittedly huge liquid funds in consumers' and corporations' pockets will give U.S. industry an unheard-of five-to-ten-year opportunity for high production and profit...