Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knox also explained that he did not write for profit but to "publicize and popularize the Navy." To the Naval Relief Society and to his ghost writers he had given all the proceeds from four recent magazine articles: from Satevepost, $1,000; Collier's, $1,000; Liberty, $900; American, $750; Post foreign rights...
Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks...
...tobacco and other plants for the practical U.S. Department of Agriculture and for his own purer research at the University of California. He tells his adventures in a new book, Plant Hunters in the Andes (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke the ice in hog troughs to wash their morning faces...
...able to expand further. With a few extra million dollars and the prospects of more in the offing, the Administration could draw up a scholarship program that would reach an entirely untouched stratum of the population. Such worthy experiments as the Nieman Fellowships and the Littauer Center would profit by enlargement. But, possibly with a longing sigh for the glories that it might achieve, the Administration must forget expansion and stick to balancing the budget. With only tuition and income to go on, it will have plenty to worry about just doing that...
...international living this House demands University support. It is notably the only center for foreign students in the College. And aside from its uniqueness, it has built up to a large degree the same kind of congeniality that is found in the Houses. That the University makes almost clear profit from the rental is only further evidence for a reduction. From the point of view of good business alone the University ought to be more lenient since it will get more from a going concern than from an empty building...