Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. Actually it is working a lot better than the gloomy grocery trade had expected. But there will be casualties. Despite the fact that national income is expected to soar to $140 billion from $120 billion, the grocers' gross this year will be down by 40-50%; his profit margin may be shaved from about 5% to about 3% of sales, due to increases in costs. As many as 50,000 small marginal grocers may go out of business entirely. But the U.S. public will get fed-and better than any nation in the world, complications, points...
...problem really plagues Hutmakers Hobbs and Comstock. Despite more business than they can handle, their gross profit per $1,200 hut is so low (about 1.7% on sales) that they will earn nothing at all even on their tiny capital investment unless the war lasts at least two years more...
...heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then shall the nation be so glorious that her praise, instead of exploding from within, from...
...self-styled 'clubs' . . . are commercial organizations . . . run for profit. . . . The judgments of their paid committees . . . are expected to produce a commercial result...
...than justify the means. Postal, which went through the wringer only two years ago, is again loaded with debt-this time $9,000,000 of RFC notes-and lost over $4,000,000 last year. Western Union, with some 80% of the U.S. telegraph business, turned in a good profit ($9,354,000 v. $7,366,000 in 1941) but competing with Postal has occupied more of its energies than streamlining its services...