Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then Transport went to ICC for approval of the merger, tried to show that its plan was in the public interest. In 1939 the firms made a profit...
Last spring, when she inherited $100, she looked around for something to invest her money in. In Annsville Creek, N. Y. she spied just the thing: a 22-foot motorboat, which she was sure could be flossied up and converted into a profit...
...boat had done service as a flower tub on the lawn in front of a Lake Oscawana hotel. A Scandinavian carpenter bought her for $5, emptied out a petunia bed, replanked her and launched her in nearby Annsville Creek. He sold her for a neat profit. Mrs. Douglas, who is short, roly-polyish and handy with tools, was sure she could do the same thing. She bought the boat, christened it Dottie...
...castings, etc. for each of aluminum's thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner on most of the preliminary fabrication...
...Waters, his able assistant. Since then the Department has been busy bolstering its contention that ASCAP is a monopoly. Thread of the Government argument: Since ASCAP insists that clients contract for all ASCAP tunes or none, any individual composer who is a member of ASCAP is deprived of potential profits when ASCAP terms are refused. "The profit from a song," says the Department, "belongs to the individual composer, not to an association...