Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negus Goes Back. No one can be so persuasive with the noble savage as the sophisticated Briton. Instead of whipping him into line as the Italian does, he convinces the native that his own profit is at stake with the British cause. Ever since the Italians took Ethiopia, Britons have nursed the Negus, Haile Selassie, with convincing tenderness. Not long ago, when the British began to resurge in Africa, he flew from Britain toward his native land to start beating his war drum (his drum, he says, has a different tone from that of all other Ethiop chiefs; the blacks...
Last week A. P. turned semi-pro by setting up a frankly profit-making subsidiary, Press Association, Inc., to sell A. P.'s services to nonmembers. Wholly owned by A. P., P. A. will be a member of the parent body, will not affect A. P.'s legal standing as a sportsmen's club...
...Hell, that's good enough for me. All the money I ever made, I made gambling. In the oil business, nobody ever saw his profit in the bank when he started to drill. I'll take a chance on this one and see if I can get the Army to put my Diesel into ipo or so tanks. I don't care' how the tax bill ends up because it's a cinch that in six months the Army will want more than 100 tank engines, and I will be in production, with a head...
...good pilot. Soon the toughest roustabouts stopped feeling strange about taking orders from a woman who stood 5 feet 2. When the first winter settled down over the Ohio, she had churned up a clean profit of $2,500, proving she could handle money as well as boats. From that time on. Captain Mary Greene-the only licensed woman navigator on U. S. inland waterways-was the First Lady of the Ohio...
...pilot, Ma Greene now serves as symbol and occasional hostess for the line, lets her two sons run things. Last week they announced that the line had set an all-time record last year by carrying 102,438 tons (up 10% from 1939, 19.5% from 1938). No profit figures were disclosed, but river men knew Ma Greene's line had enjoyed clear sailing...