Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gloves, corsets, furniture, gramophones, perfumes-in a few full-time "nucleus" factories, thus freeing the other "redundant" factories for war production or storage. The "nucleus" factories would manufacture not only for their owners but also-under the appropriate trademarks and labels-for the "redundant" factories taken out of production. Profit pools would be worked out in each case...
Whether Frank Riggio's idea, Y. & R.'s ads or George Hill's inspired hunch-playing was responsible, Pall Mall had struck a bonanza. It sold 4,000,000,000 cigarets in 1940, seven times its former volume. Last week Profit-Maker Hill, pleased as spiked punch, translated this into dollars for his stockholders. To American Tobacco's 1940 net of $28,311,783 (up 7% over 1939), American Cigarette and Cigar had contributed $1,458,107 (up 276% over 1939). The subsidiary's Pall Mall division had changed a $780,902 loss...
...activity to its proper place as the servant of his whole personal life. Second, it must reconstitute "the expression of his status in the natural world." To itself the Church delegates the responsibility for pointing the way towards a series of practical reforms--production for need rather than for profit, guarantees of security for the unemployed, free international trade, conservation of natural resources, the unification of Europe into a cooperative commonwealth, education in citizenship for the young, and a return to faith in God. For a just peace, they propose a settlement guaranteeing the real needs and just demands...
...Production for use instead of profit -and abolition of the "profit motive...
According to Bingham, however, the rental proposition is impossible, because in trying to rent the field to Boston College, the University would be going into competition for profit with the owners of private stadiums, such as Fenway Park...