Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considering these costs, the fact that Sterling showed a foreign profit at all last year is amazing. And on balance, the directors of the company have every right to feel pleased: they have saved their foreign outlets and done a good job for Uncle Sam as well. Nonetheless there are still some Washington officials who fear that at war's end Sterling will want to resume its old ties with I. G. Farben. And certain it is that after the war Germany (if it can) will actively help I.G. regain her markets. In that event Sterling may need active...
...Nation, Inc. (herself) to Nation Associates, Inc., a new, nonprofit organization. Freda Kirchwey will still be editor and publisher, will draw a salary. Sole advantage of the new plan: she will feel freer to ask for funds when it is understood that she has no chance of a personal profit...
What were consumer and service industries to do if they could not pay the additional overtime and make a profit under price ceilings? They were either to get along with a smaller staff working longer hours or-although the Government did not bluntly say so-fold up. Paul McNutt indicated that necessary exemptions would be made...
Critics of the 40-hour week at first hailed the move as a bold and badly needed stroke. Later they had some reservations: 1) for all except war industries, the order virtually removed the profit incentive from business; 2) its enforcement posed tremendous difficulties...
...this is to cut exports. But in peacetime this normally implies drastically cutting profit margins, since for many a firm exports mean that extra margin of volume on which profits very largely depend. The alternative is for the U.S. willingly to accept imports. This means eliminating tariffs and trade barriers which special groups defend...