Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war world the profit element of industry and commerce must be made subservient to the common good of communities and nations...
...Vanderbilt, got him to cancel a $1,000,000 note owed him by the News. Then Boddy borrowed (from a private loan company) $100,000 with which to acquire controlling interest in the News. He used the News itself as collateral. If the News failed to show a profit in six months, the loan company was to take over. Boddy worked night & day to improve the six-column ("But it's not a tabloid") paper...
Things began to perk up. Boddy exposed a scandalous misuse of public funds on the projected San Gabriel Dam. He tore into a malodorous municipal bond issue. The reputation of the News for fair dealing grew until in February 1929 it showed its first profit...
...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...
...estimated that this new rate will slice $773,000 off Eastern's annual mail pay, cut next year's mail revenue to $1.3 million. But CAB pointed out that Eastern stands to clear in the next twelve months an operating profit of $3.3 millions from its non-mail operations...