Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business: corn products are a staple of war (munitions, alcohol), as well as in civilian life. The refineries closed because, in effect, the U.S. corn growers were on strike: they didn't want to sell their corn at the $1.07 ceiling price, when they could make a better profit feeding the corn to hogs (or selling it to hog growers via the black market...
...Jersey, canners announced that tons of tomatoes, beans and many another vegetable would rot in the fields or in storage and not be canned unless OPA fixed 1943 ceiling prices on the canned products, allowing the canners to figure their profit...
...March quarter of last year many manufacturers were in the midst of converting from peace to war production, so that both their gross sales and their net income were in a bad slump. By far the biggest profit increase among manufacturing companies for this year's first quarter (41%) was turned in by the auto industry, which was the hardest hit by conversion problems last year...
...Paul's city commission decided to liquidate the "city bank," this week will sell its assets ($6,656,000 worth of St. Paul bonds), for which there is now an eager market. The commissioners also know the bank has a profit of $2,600,000, which will pay off more than half of a $4,500,000 deficit in St. Paul's permanent improvement revolving fund (about which the commissioners have become increasingly concerned...
...Yank, the Army weekly magazine, is one year old. A strictly Government Issue publication, it will last roughly only for the duration, does not worry about circulation (figures are secret) or profit. Yank now has four editions-two published in New York (for U.S. camps, for overseas distribution), one in London for soldiers stationed in Britain, one in Puerto Rico for Caribbean garrisons. Others are planned...