Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profit & Loss. Pan Am's expeditionary force could be well satisfied with its job, though Pan Am was ill satisfied with the result. The Army has profited by Pan Am experience and Pan Am by U.S. money. For months Brigadier General Shepler Fitzgerald's wing of the Air Transport Command has been learning airline transport technique, has all but officially militarized the entire operation. Pan Am employes were offered commissions and technical enlisted status to stay on the job. Many accepted; many others stayed with Juan Trippe, who may yet come out of World War II with many...
...Fernando Valley (Calif.) Times turns a neat profit without benefit of comics, syndicated features, national advertising, a sports page, or even a sales price. The standard-size throwaway, 62,000 copies of which are distributed free twice a week, is not interested in World War II. Its sole interest is in telling the valley's 200,000 residents about themselves, and playing ball with valley merchants. They pack its 40 pages with advertising (including twelve solid pages of classified ads) to the exclusion of big Los Angeles merchants. The man who perfected this successful formula now has developed...
...happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
...Film Society, which was organized in 1936 by a group of undergradutes, is run on a non-profit basis. Last year it was able to put $250 into War Bonds as a result of an extra large membership
...knows that railroad earnings today are strictly wartime profits, wants the railroads reorganized on a commonsense, peacetime profit basis...