Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lessons are based on such practical problems as meter reading, map reading, timetable reading, floorplan drawing, computing the cost of a trip, profit & loss, interest, taxes, budgets, insurance...
Equally sweeping and specific is the churchmen's program for industry, which is based on the premise that "the first need is a new public opinion which will discountenance any form of financial transaction or arrangement that yields a profit without rendering commensurate service, or that endangers the rights of others." This would immediately condemn "all speculation in currency or industrial shares" and "irresponsible use of wealth." Some of the other "rights and responsibilities" which the churchmen feel industry must regard "as no less binding than honesty or solvency...
...Each job was too technical for the other to handle. Business' job was not social service but making money out of taking orders. Government's job was not handing out subsidies, but giving clear policy directives to the economy and seeing that all its resources -including the profit motive-are fully used. By the end of 1941 the U.S. had had a bellyful of Business posing as Government, and Government hiding behind Business. In 1942 the U.S. would need both Government and Business, and it would need each functioning on its own side of the fence...
...food manufacturers are not selling what people ought to eat, they want to know it. Fifteen companies,* with nearly $1,000,000 in subscriptions, last week incorporated the non-profit Nutrition Foundation. Its purposes: 1) to establish cooperative research laboratories; 2) broadcast their nutritional findings freely. To head their foundation they got no less a scientist-administrator than Karl Taylor Compton, 54, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...plushiest employe profit-sharing plan in big corporation history last week was announced by Beech Aircraft Corp. The scheme-which was okayed with a whoop and a holler by Beech's 6,000 employees-gives them one-half of all company profits. Distributions (50% cash, 50% U.S. Defense Savings bonds) will be made every three months on the basis of the preceding quarter's earnings. Beech thereby expects to generate enough worker cooperation and efficiency at least to offset the cost to the stockholders...