Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.C.L. depends heavily upon its L. & N. investment. Last year dividends received totaled $3,580,000 against A.C.L. net profit...
That a paper which many newsmen rated "the least fair and reliable" should be an outstanding success does not mean that its journalistic sins are profitable. The Tribune's success can be laid to other factors than its news. It has always had a great and tough circulation department, perfected by that wizard of circulation, the late Max Annenberg, who fought Hearst with almost gangster methods, and carried on by Max's blasphemous brother-in-law, Louis Rose. No small credit for the Tribune's fat profit belongs to Business Manager W. E. Macfarlane...
Huck started the yacht company in 1928 after selling a family lumber business because he liked boats better. He is the designer; his partner, a close-mouthed Yankee named Henry Skinner Baldwin, is the businessman. Their Fairform Flyers (produced at a profit each year even during the depression) are expensive, carefully engineered boats known as the Duesenbergs of the small motor yacht class...
Annual Time Sales and Profit...
...British bank holiday stopped London underwriters, shippers had to shop around, at widely varying rates, for enough U.S. companies to cover an entire cargo-until the U.S. Government set up a reinsurance fund of its own. (The Government assumed $2,068,000,000 in risks, made an operating profit...