Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long last is ready to put the profit motive to work to get the big copper companies to increase their output of this bottleneck metal...
Every cent of premium money has been paid to microscopic concerns, while the important producers have been expected to take an actual loss on as much as 30% of their production, on the theory that they could make up this loss out of profit on their low-cost mines...
Back in the depression years when food prices were down and all other prices were up, the dining halls were clearing about $40,000 a year. At that time the Temporary Student Employment plan was set up, utilizing the profits from the dining halls to pay for jobs around the University. That profit has now been absorbed into the steadily rising cost of labor and food, making it necessary for TSE to be discontinued. The abandonment of the plan which has materially aided both students and the University will work hardships on several departments, as well as on some...
...jail. . . . They should have been there years ago. . . . From now on we should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that he and his party shall profit from the war, whichever side wins . . . the nauseating hypocrisy of the saintly humbug...
Wickard hopes his appeal to the farmers' patriotism may cut wheat planting by 15,000,000 acres. But the profit motive is working hard against him. The farm bloc has fixed the crop-loan law so that farmers can unload their wheat on the Government at $1.14 a bushel v. 98? last year and 65? the year before...