Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval-force mass action, will make possible a deathly British Isles blockade. The air war over England will be directed against the armament industry, communications, British field positions. Germany will attempt a radical military solution of the Mediterranean problem at the very moment when German strategy will profit from all chances of direct attack on England. The possibilities of invasion are considered so numerous that it will be impossible for the British immediately to recognize mock actions...
...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...
...Without a navy," Admiral Jean Fran-gois Darlan once said, quoting Richelieu, "one can neither carry on a war nor profit by a peace." Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port. How nice it would be, Benito Mussolini must have thought wistfully, if the three western Mediterranean powers got together somehow and drove the British out of Mare Nostrum...
...realize that more than $1,000,000 has been thrown away so far this season on ... shoddy, flimsy, artificial trifles that even the producers themselves, in many cases, knew could never succeed? Who does it help to put on shows like that? Maybe the producer makes a quick profit...
...plants that can be readily converted to peacetime use after the war, the Government finances the plant itself, the businessman furnishes the machinery and working capital. He earns about 5% on his investment. 4) Plenty of Government orders are let on straight contracts to existing companies. On these the profit is also limited to around...