Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly the policy we adopted since 1920 was not that of a great crusading nation. Complete isolation, the Hawley-Smoot tariff, and a profit making reparation policy are hardly milestones on a path of virtue. Having failed to win the peace we walked out on world government as completely as any one. We gave up the cause liberals in all countries were fighting for and set ourselves to a completely self-motivated course...
...their first) to tell Boston about it. By week's end, they had bought back some 2,200 lb. They had also spent less money than they figured on: half the repurchased sugar was offered to them at 6½? a lb. by customers ashamed to take a profit...
First official U.S. raid was on the bulging stocks of Pepsi-Cola, which last week agreed with OPM to release 40,000 tons to New York refiners. But the 3.74? per lb. that Pepsi-Cola will get for its precious stocks will yield it a useful inventory profit (last year's average price: 3.4?)-for Pepsi-Cola, selling a 12-oz. bottle for the same price as Coca-Cola's 6-oz. bottle, has to be doubly careful of the cost of its materials...
...will cost the Treasury theoretical money to make these metal savings, since the paper profit it makes through seigniorage will be less. In 1,000 of the current brand of nickels (monetary value $50), the cost to the Treasury of the copper and nickel is only $2.05, yielding a seigniorage of $47.95. In the new silver nickels-thanks largely to the Treasury's own policy of paying 71.11? per ounce for newly mined U.S. silver-the metal will cost $38 per thousand, yielding only $12 seigniorage. But the silver would be bought and buried anyhow. So in real money...
...headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...