Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this the owners spend $17.20 per capita a year, reap the profit of their investment in better work by men & women in the fields and mills. Cooperation of the workers is close to perfect. Working for the backers of the medical system they can be told what to do. They conform. There is no slackness...
...World War I, perfected and expanded by farmers in the late '30s, the food-locker business is now operating at record levels. Scattered through 46 states are 4,600 locker plants (1938 total: 1,269), with some 300 private lockers apiece. Many earn 30 to 100% annual profit on their investment. Business is so good that plants have waiting lists of 10 to 500 customers; new plants are going up as fast as Government priorities, regulations - and the black market - will permit...
...broad reaches of the Mississippi Delta in Sunflower County is a remarkable state penitentiary. Its name: Parchman Penal Farms. Its record: a net profit...
Source of this profit, perhaps the most money ever made in a year...
Total sales were $2900, cost of sales $2450. To reduce the period profit to the required 15 percent, cigarettes have been reduced to $1.25 a carton. In case you're interested the store's balance sheet tips the scales at $3374. Forty percent of profits will be placed in the Supply School welfare Fund, 30 percent in Capital Reserve, and 30 percent in Net Worth...