Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that Britain sold Lend-Lease food to its citizens, thus made "a profit out of something that we paid for originally?" Partly, said Mr. Stettinius, for Britain had to distribute Lend-Lease food through the same channels as other food. But the money went to buy supplies for U.S. troops stationed in England...
...York Central reported last year's net profit at $49 million, or nearly six times as much as the road earned during the entire decade of 1932-41. It reduced its 1941 debt of $969 million (including lessor companies) by $51 million, bringing total retirements for the decade to $191 million...
...despite all this fancy filling, Victory still looked too much like propaganda. To make Victory look more like a privately owned magazine, OWI decided that it ought to print advertising to take away the Government taint. Result: a contract (prestige but no profit) with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., to publish and sell advertising space for Victory...
...publication in a form accessible to the rest of the world. The Confucian emphasis on human relations exercised a powerful influence on oriental social and legal theories, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, according to our ideas. There would be great interest and perhaps some social profit in following such leads in Chinese literature for ideas which might be applicable today...
...what customers we shall deliver and when. He controls the wages and salaries we shall pay . . . sets standards of quality for our products; he tells how we shall keep our books and [what] records he requires us to maintain. Finally he takes in taxes about three-quarters of any profit and reserves the right through renegotiation to take away whatever additional amount he sees...