Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While expecting a bigger, more important scoop within a week or two, here's a little scoop to keep ya happy. In 20 days (from March 10 to 31) the ship's service store made a net profit of about...
...back up these charges, the Committee trundled out stacks of figures, batches of examples. In all cases handled through Feb. 27, the Army had allowed net profits (before taxes) ranging from 0.4% to 22.1% of sales. After income and excess profits taxes averaging 70%, the low man would be almost broke while the high man would have about 6% net profit on sales. This big spread made little sense to the Committee, makes less sense to businessmen. The Navy Board was more consistent, allowed profits (before taxes) of 5.6% to 16.6% on net sales...
Fast and Slow. One bad result, according to the report, is that the Price Boards often slash the profits of a fast, cheap producer just as much as they cut earnings of a slow, inefficient manufacturer. Asked the Committee: "Who can contend that it is excessive, unfair or unpatriotic for [the good producer] to receive a substantially greater profit, both in percentage and in dollars, than [the poor...
...City Star appeared a help-wanted ad: "Girl, lazy; only requirement that she love our baby; no Sundays, no cooking, no laundry, no nothin'." On a closed café in Bucyrus, Ohio appeared an explanatory sign: "No coffee, no sugar, no help, no oil, no heat and no profit...
...economics preceded his ouster. French speculators had transferred millions of francs to North Africa when the rate of exchange was 100 to 150 francs to the American dollar. Upon French advice, the U.S. authorities reduced the rate to 50 francs to the dollar-enabling the speculators to turn a profit of 100 to 150%. Before the U.S. Treasury finally awoke and forbade such speculation, several huge fortunes were amassed by this trading in invasion dollars...