Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once again be far-sighted. Let us once again "keep our heads clear." Let us once again "profit by the proverbial school kept by experience." Let us stop our acts "short of war" before we are again involved in a useless, fantastic turmoil of hate and bloodshed. Howard W. Young...
...National, incorporated in late 1929 (and only one of the present big five to show a profit in 1932), earned $15,066,341 ($6.83 a share), less than the record $17,801,893 it reported in 1937 but a comfortable 12% over...
Defiant Grower Johnston did not say that the Government should be the goat forever. But, comparing surplus cotton stocks to a strategic-materials stockpile, he intimated that the Government might sell the cotton abroad at a profit after the war. (He recalled that after World War I the foreign cotton market soared.) He also placed faith in the Council's fight for greater domestic consumption. He even preached cotton hosiery. When he reproached American girls for running around with silk stockings "like yellow-legged pullets," the wife* of a retired broker named William Henry Wallace Jr., sitting...
...able job for the New Deal. From 1934 to 1937, as the liquidator of the old Hoover Farm Board cotton surplus, he managed to unload some 2,500,000 bales on the market without once breaking the price below 12?. In the process, he made the Treasury a fat profit in futures, and infuriated Broker Clayton who, for the first time in years, had to watch someone else make the market. Johnston also got $363,002,57 in AAA checks for the acres he abandoned from...
...hardly look a gift horse in the Mund. Furthermore, the amount of food that would be kept on hand by the Committee would never be more than would support Germany for over three days, so that Germany would not be able to allow a surplus, to build up and profit by a seizure...