Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations High Command has been established with its headquarters significantly in Washington. China and Russia have yet to profit much from U.S. help...
Ninety percent of Lincoln's whopping bonuses go to the men behind the machines and, to make them still more profit-conscious, they have been permitted to buy 30% of the company's stock. As for the specific 1941 extras that horrified the House Committee, they went to reward executives for the following kinds of value received...
...other words, the way Mr. Lincoln sliced it, he had put the profit motive to work. It was just as simple as that...
...most U.S. citizens, control was a less terrible word than inflation. But up cropped a new word, which may come to be as terrible as either: subsidy. The Office of Price Administration, knowing that some businessmen could never make a profit under a suddenly imposed and rigidly enforced ceiling, planned to subsidize their losses. This would mean that the public would have to cough up taxes to support some businesses, particularly marginal and inefficient units. Worse, the U.S. would be piling up the cost of Government to keep its cost of living down...
Paraflow was a gold mine: it yielded Standard more than $1,000,000 a year, or a gross profit on sales of some 50%. It was so good, in fact, that Socony-Vacuum tried to save itself royalties by inventing a substitute. This was Santopour, which was sold at the same price but was, in some cases at least, more effective...