Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as sensational new black-market trials were said to be coming up, Britain chattered about the growing horde of "food-substitute" manufacturers, who sometimes clear as much as 1,600% profit. Items...
While the particular films shown at the recent preview in Washington happened to have been produced by the studios indicated in your story, it is of importance that all studios in Hollywood are producing Army Training Films for the War Department on a non-profit basis, under my supervision...
...from a single example: One man may have founded a business by much effort, skill and good management with a $5,000 investment. Another man, less able and less hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
...News has been so good to us," says Publisher Alicia. Meantime well-edited Newsday, claiming only 2,000 less circulation than its 20-year-old Republican competitor, the Nassau Review-Star (circ. 32,000), has won the Ayer typography award, hopes soon to turn a profit...
Esquire ("More Smileage") is no such bonanza as it was in 1937 (just before the Smarts sold big blocks of stock) when it reached an average 575,519 monthly circulation peak and made $807,865 net. But it still pays a tidy profit. From last year's $221,431 it climbed to $302,060 in 1941 (year ending March...