Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guaranteeing the purchase of all Argentine meat exports for United Nations benefit until October 1944. Meat prices were up to their highest level in 18 years. With the sale of her most important export product secured, it really looked to Argentina as though being a holdout neutral would bring profit, rather than ruin...
...Profits: When contracts are canceled reasonable profits are allowed, based upon the amount of work done. Thus, a contractor entitled to $200,000 profits on an order would be entitled to about $100,000 if the contract were canceled when half completed. But the profit in all cases depends finally upon the "sound judgment" of the contracting officer...
...Minister to India), founded it, his primary purpose was to propagandize against the British corn laws (regulations on the import of grain) and support the laissez faire movement. He shrewdly mixed some political and business articles in with the propaganda, managed to gather some 3,000 readers, a small profit and a journalistic reputation before he died in 1860, leaving his paper to his six picturesque, strictly Victorian daughters. They and their descendants, apparently endowed with Founder Wilson's zeal and luck, retained control through years of small prestige, even smaller profit, until 1928, when they sold the paper...
...credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly intended for housewives. Within three months, 3,000 cars were parked out front each day. Now there are 18,000 on Saturdays, 12,000 weekdays. At first the only profit for Dahlhjelm and Beck was $9 a day, split between them, from the 50? daily rental paid by each tenant...
...graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since I was a little...