Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knowledge of symptoms, scalpels and pills is not enough to make a doctor successful. Ernest L. Boggs has discovered that fact, to his profit. Since 1925, short, dark, stocky, persuasive ex-Salesman Boggs (advertising, automobiles, insurance, candy) has been teaching his Detroit doctor clients how to earn a living. He charges retaining fees of $75 a month to $5,000 a year, depending on the doctor's earning power and the success of the treatment. He fails in one case out of twelve...
There was a time when Boggs worked for 32 doctors' offices at once, but an analysis of his own business showed he was wearing himself out and spreading himself thin for little extra profit. Last week, at 48, he was coasting along easily on twelve practices. He does not worry about his ideas getting abroad and spoiling business. Often a doctor, after months of coaching in Boggs ideas, thinks he can run his own practice, fires Boggs only to come back later with a new problem. Some doctors have rehired him as many as three times...
...market place and in the great hall before the belching statue of Ba'al Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known...
This means that every dollar earned between June 1 and Dec. 31, after payment of taxes and operating expenses, will be clear net profit. But railroad stockholders are still a long way from jingling the profits in their pockets. Still to be decided are wage demands of 1,350,000 operating and nonoperating rail employes. Possible cost: approximately $400,000,000 annually...
...Geneticist William Bateson was so backward in school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...