Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fulton attributes the superiority of English over German air-strength to more effective gunnery, and to equipment more adequate to meet the physiological requirements of pilots flying at high altitudes. He suggests that the United States is in a position to profit by the experiences of English investigators in the field of oxygen equipment...
...some fly-by-night operators decided homemade talkies might clear some easy pesos. They came out with a nice profit and racy roadsters, but gave Mexican cinema such a bad name it is still trying to recover...
...know that their grades and degrees are worth, and with this list of accredited institutions at hand we shall be saved a great deal of the wasted time and effort and scholarship money which in other years have been given to men who were not in a position to profit by work with us. Incidentally, the Divinity School was visited last year by the examining committee of the Conference, was duly recommended as approved, and was placed on the accredited list at the June, 1940, meeting of the Conference...
...rules and allow shorts five days to cover. In the 1925 wheat market ending with the Black Friday crash he bought grain in 5,000,000-bushel lots while the market was rising, turned bear at the top and sold 50,000,000 bushels short for an approximate profit of $10,000,000. Quietly sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum, pushed it up 75 points, suddenly went off on a vacation with another bull fortune in his pocket. Unable to get a lower berth on a Florida train, he chartered a special...
...refusal to go along on the increased markup was in line with a basic policy laid down by its industrious. 130-lb. president, Lingan Alan Warren. "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable," Warren once said. "That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing." It was also, as events turned out, insurance that Safeway need feel no qualms when Thurman Arnold's men get to Colorado...