Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. . . . For a week he cleaned up the place, salvaged what stock he could and cleaned the rust off his machines; then he was back looking for business. We were glad to be able to give him some small jobs, and off he went quite happy, although the profit from our orders would not keep his family for one week. Two weeks later, in the great City fire raid, his building disappeared and with it his machines, stock and records-and our jobs as well...
...class laborer. He is loyal to America. He has considerable European blood in his makeup. It may be true that he does not produce large amounts of food. This is due to one reason only, a lack of a market in which to dispose of his produce at a profit. In Guam the average temperature is about 81° F. and the humidity is up in the 80s. This causes rapid decomposition. The natives are extremely poor and can afford only such artificial means for food preservation as may be improvised. . . . Not only nature but numerous insects and animal creatures...
...earnings were $2,428,000 v. $1,527,000 in 1939. Once wholly dependent upon Alcoa's aluminum, Reynolds Metals is now feeling its oats. This week its president blasted blanket priorities: ". . . If enforced . . . without reasonable notice to the trade, only the Aluminum Company of America stands to profit...
Upstart Frank Riggio, with a new plant in Brooklyn and $175,000 in machinery, sold 800,000,000 Regents, a 300% increase over 1939 and enough (even with Regents' high-cost cardboard box) to net him a profit. But George Hill was by now far ahead. His two entries, Tareyton and Pall Mall, blanketed 70% of the new market...
According to plans, RCA's Princeton outfit will occupy 300 acres of land, cost over $1,000,000. Expected to be completed by 1942, the property will be adjacent to Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, not far from Princeton University. RCA's research headquarters will profit by being in a nonindustrial area, free of mechanical noises that might interfere with its work...