Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Science from Shipboard is published without profit. Written without hope of royalties, mostly by leading members of the American Association of Scientific Workers, it will be distributed to enlisted men on embarkation, sold in bookstores...
Mutual, youngest of the four national networks and weakest in big affiliated stations, is most likely to profit by the rules. Under the old system, when Mutual did get a program on a rival network station, it could be-and sometimes was-kicked off on short notice. What the other effects may be is still uncertain. Affiliated stations, now able to pick & choose, might produce broadcasting chaos by greedily grabbing for the networks' best audience programs, leaving poor pickings to the others. Such a development might lead the networks to drop worthy, unprofitable sustaining programs...
During those seven years Leon Henderson, who was at the policy-making level in the U.S. Government, vigorously helped promote the profit-making atmosphere in which Leo Cherne's Institute has thrived. Leon's job with Leo looked like something more than a profitable hookup for the two-it looked like poetic justice...
...seven years Leo Cherne, 31, and his Research Institute have done a profit able business in explaining tangled Federal regulations to bewildered businessmen. In 1939, as war began to look inevitable, Leo Cherne persuaded Louis Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, to let him spend six weeks in the War Department digging up facts for an M-Day book, Adjusting Your Business to War. Shortly thereafter Louis Johnson went into political eclipse for three years (the Presi dent and much of the Administration seemed shocked at such a forthright indication that the U.S. might go to war). But the book...
...year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into a juicy $1,991,000 profit. Of 22 roads to report last week, not one showed a drop in earnings...