Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beef will be more bony and gristly, because it is not finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...
Thus the Army made a neat profit of almost $700,000 on its white elephant. Except for Winner Kirkaby, who said the Stevens would be doing business in 60 days, Chicago hotelmen were not so happy. They remembered a sad Chicago maxim: nobody makes money in the hotel business when "the world's biggest hotel" (3,000 rooms) is taking in roomers...
...erecting a Cargill office building in Omaha, Danish-accented Chris Jensen made so much profit on the job by his construction short cuts that Cargill hired him to put his tricks to work for them...
...this, Alfred William Lawson, was born in England, attended no colleges, pitched for the Goshen, Ind. ball club in 1888. His Philadelphia Fly (1909) was the first popular aeronautical magazine. He later manufactured planes in Green Bay, Wis. designed and built a 26-passenger plane, made a pioneering profit flying it around the U.S. In 1920 he got the first U.S. airmail contract. A year later a Lawson plane crashed and the Lawson plane company followed suit...
...Since C.E.D. is incorporated as a non-profit institution, it cannot do any direct lobbying, but must rely on giving other men what Hoffman calls "a post-graduate course in applied economics" so persuasive that they themselves will work to achieve...