Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the HDC terms itself a non-profit cultural organization, set up purely for the furthering and advancement of the drama, the School Commission has indicated that it would classify the HDC as commercial...
...units or less) whose net operating income from rents is less than 25% of their total yearly take will be allowed to boost their return to 30%. Example: A landlord takes in $1,000 a year in rents, spends $800 of it for labor, taxes, fuel, depreciation, etc. His profit is $200, so the Government will let him boost his rent enough to raise his profit from 20 to 30%. He will be allowed to raise his gross rents to $1,143, for a profit of $343. Owners of larger structures will be allowed to bring their return...
...young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties. In 1944, his war-cargoed ships alone netted him $5,600,000. But the shrewdest judgment...
...stenographer was quite right. Harrods Ltd., which grossed a thumping $80 million last year, has never failed to show a profit; but Harrods prefers to do it by selling quality goods to people of quality. Most of its 300,000 customers are members of the upper classes...
Though inaugurated before the publication of the Poskanzer Report, the Chemistry Department's plan follows very closely the Student Council Committee's recommendations that the student be consulted in his own education and that the faculty profit by the student's suggestions to improve teaching methods. Not only has the Chemistry Department offered prizes for better instructing but has also set up a program of lectures for their teaching fellows and a routine of frequent inspections to supervise their work. Section men who persist in a casual attitude toward students will have their fellowships discontinued for the following year...