Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tear down our national defenses." He "will be surprised and very much dismayed if the U.S. ever disarms again." One benefit he foresees from compulsory peacetime military service is a permanent three-year college course to enable undergraduates to spend the fourth year in uniform: "Our young men will profit from a year's military training and will be saved a year of the wasted time that has always characterized American education...
...Atlantic Gulf & West Indies S.S. bought 15,468 shares of its $100 par stock in the five months ended August at $40 a share or less-for a bookkeeping profit of at least $925,000-50% more than the total of its real profits from steamship operations in the first six months...
Customers' checks average 35? (profit ½? a meal). They join the waiters in community singing. During religious songs, blue neon crosses light up the walls. In the Pacific Seas' "rain hut" every 20 minutes diners hear the sound of rain on the roof. At Brookdale visitors hear a recording of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and a two-minute sermon on Story of the Redwoods in a tiny chapel...
...Florida real estate that led him-with Pawley luck and Pawley supersalesmanship-into aviation. After selling some airfields to the old Curtis-Wright Flying Service, he bootstrapped himself into the vice president's chair of a Cuban flying service. He finally sold out at a sweet profit to Pan American Airways which just then was getting a start in Latin America...
Since then his Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. of China has built and sold more than $30,000,000 worth of planes and repair services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery...