Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major companies doing the purchasing are rocking along pleasantly under depressed prices. As operators of their own refineries, they want cheap oil be cause their big profit is from gasoline, lubricants, jellies and a hundred byproducts. Naturally they are letting the independents fight the price battle...
Caring little for profit, the Monitor annually rejects close to $1,000,000 in advertisements it does not consider whole some (coffee, tea, liquor, tobacco ads; ads for tombstones, firearms; ads containing the abbreviation "Xmas"). Despite this policy the Monitor has made money. In its best year, 1929, it netted $400,000. In the past few years, because war has cut off overseas advertisers and subscribers, the Monitor has been losing a little...
...I.B.M. business multiplied. As 1942 approached its end, President Watson again faced an inevitable, enormous bonanza. He took a drastic step, requested that his extra compensation for 1942 be no greater than in 1939, explaining that thereby he would avoid personal profit from the company's munitions busi ness, of which it had none in '39. (Watson is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Result of his abnegations: President Watson received a mere $428,189 from I.B.M. in 1942. Of this, $325,549 was extra compensation, which would have been $524,299 had it been...
...Kennie Wagner, ex-trick shot circus star who killed five men in three states. Last February, 19 other prisoners broke prison in the largest break in Mississippi history. All but three have been recaptured. The prison is also criticized for working its men too hard-competition to make a profit is too keen among its 17 farming units. This year Mississippi's Governor Paul B. Johnson heeded the reformers. His order: more attention to rehabilitation of the prisoners, less to making money...
...from Robert Frost's seven published volumes. Frost has long tried to write poetry like the living speech of men & women. He has succeeded: of all distinctive U.S. poets, the New England laureate is perhaps the least mystifying. But Editor Untermeyer feels that Frost's readers will profit by added interpretations and comment. Sample...