Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME-by-air has been received with such cheers from subscribers and advertisers alike that what started out as an altruistic venture now has a good chance of breaking even, perhaps making a small profit...
They have furnished patterns for orderly traffic, shelter, thwarting of sabotage, emergency fire fighting, policing during and after bombardment. Britain showed that it is better to prepare early than to meet the awful fact of bombardment with no preparation, and the War Department proposes to profit by British mistakes...
...steel companies, Weir's National (now No. 5 U.S. producer) could best afford a pay rise. A low-cost producer with a steady market in the auto and canning industries, National made a profit even in 1932, when the four biggest companies lost $109,800,000. Since National has a low exemption under the excess-profits tax, most of what it pays out in higher wages can be saved in lower taxes...
...German luftweb, richly subsidized from Berlin, had its beginnings about 20 years ago. German pilots set up small lines (often in interior regions where there could be no hope of making a profit), became naturalized citizens, married South American women. The lines grew by hauling mail at big losses, carrying South American officials free. Even after the Scadta line was nationalized, about half of the line's 22 pilots remained in Colombia. Two of them bought land ostensibly for farming, used it instead to start an unscheduled line with two old planes...
...Chicago & North Western, in bankruptcy since June 1935, has suddenly begun to make money on its old capitalization. Its February gross was $6,913,000, up 8% from last year, while its operating net rose from a $288,000 deficit to $624,000 profit...