Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when the outlook was blackest, short, cocky William S. Jack always knew everything would turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...
...revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing those institutions by consent instead of violence is possible when men's minds are accustomed to great transformations, but will be infinitely more difficult when post-war inertia and fatigue set in. This analysis of the conservative mind exemplifies magnificently the value of the Marxian approach when...
With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...
...American Airlines decision the reduction in mail pay will amount to more than $1.3 million annually, but will still enable them to collect $2.4 millions for flying the mail. Adding to this passenger and express revenues CAB figures American will show an operating profit of $7.7 millions per year before taxes...
...decision to follow the orthodox formula of paying a carrier for the actual pounds of mail carried times the distance flown is based on the solid ground of weighted cost of service plus a reasonable profit. This is a policy the air transport industry will go along with so long as it is not used to penalize efficient operators, support inefficient ones...