Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over by the Dominion Government to the profit of provincial bondholders-something the report guarded against by recommending a capital-gains...
...Farmers, Write for Your Paper." He campaigned hard for many a rural benefit (free schools, State fairs, crop rotation, a law to keep livestock from roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...
...group, would be startling. Coming from the traditionally complacent and conservative Established Church it was little short of revolutionary. It called for unification of Europe in a cooperative commonwealth, communal ownership of the means of production, more religion and less liturgy. On the negative side it condemned the profit motive and the Church's own financial dependence on ancient perquisites and levies...
...Profit System Condemned. "Christian doctrine must insist that production exists for consumption. ... To a large extent production is carried on not to supply the consumer with goods but to bring profits to the producer. . . . This method . . . which tends to treat human work and human satisfaction alike as a means to a false end-namely monetary gain-becomes the source of unemployment at home and dangerous competition for markets abroad. . . . The monetary system must be so administered that what the community can produce is made available to the members of the community, the satisfaction of human needs being accepted...
...financing. Transport planned to pay $22.543,657 for its 48 units; ICC found that the companies had only $10,617,958 in tangible assets. Moreover, out of capital of $24,751,824 which Transport wanted to raise by selling stock, a whopping $3,424,-964 would have gone as profit to the organizers, promoters and bankers (presuming the success of the underwriting...