Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costs are computed so closely that when the hall is running according to schedule, a profit of only one-tenth of a cant is earned for each plate. Only four full-time kitchen helpers are employed, since the Cooperative has 25 graduate student workers who earn their meals by working ten hours a week...
Chances are that, after the scrap-rubber drive, conducted on a patriotic no-profit basis, fails to yield enough rubber to fight the war, the Administration may try to override the people's reluctance...
Lost Revolution. The only thing revolutionary about the Nazi revolution, says Smith, was the attempt of the middle class to take power away from big industrialists and organized workers. But Smith says that the only ones who really got power and profit under Naziism were the industrialists and the new Nazi elite-for instance, Göring, the new Steel King. "The figures for total net profits for major industries show falling profits and share values from 1929 until 1933, when Hitler came to power, and from then on an unbroken rise. A member of the American Embassy once worked...
Jesse Jones sent all the fire-insurance agents swarming out over the country last week to sell (at little if any profit to themselves) war-damage policies for a new billion-dollar corporation of his. The days of free Government war-damage insurance end July...
...continue to have an essentially free and classless society in this country, we must proceed from the premise that there are no educational privileges. We must endeavor to sort out at each stage in the educational process those boys and girls who can profit from one type of education, and those who can profit by another. There must be a variety of educational channels leading towards different walks in life. And as far as possible there should be no hierarchy of education disciplines; no one channel should have a social standing above the other...