Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascism wins in Europe, "we can not help but be forced to adopt some imitative form of Fascism ourselves." This, he said, would occur, because a German victory in Europe would give the totalitarian forces in this country not only ideological impetus, but also material support from the "profit-moved business...
Throughout the '305, profit-per-ton leadership shuttled back & forth between Chicago's Inland Steel and Pittsburgh's National Steel, spry mass-producers of flat steels. During those years, steel fans assumed that when the industry got back to 90% operations, profit-per-ton leadership would be captured by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem. Reason: each derives great leverage from its heavy (structural) steel capacity, cleans up when this last, higher-profit margin of its capacity goes to work. Last week U. S.'s and Bethlehem's leverage departments were at full blast, and their...
...strictly non-profit enterprise, said Hollywood; the films are to be distributed free for exhibition in the movie theatres to be built at all training camps. Major Nathan Levinson of the Signal Corps Reserve put it more bluntly, growled: "Nobody's going to make a dime out of this, and if they think they are, they'd better pull their horns in right...
...first Kyser picture, That's Right, You're Wrong, appeared twelve months ago. Financed jointly by R. K. O., oval-shaped Director David Butler and Kyser, it was completed for a paltry $300,000, trapped $1,000,000 worth of customers. Kyser drew $100,000 net profit from the highly speculative enterprise with only the $5,000 weekly salary of his band to be deducted. Other studios, gasping at the result, quickly signed up further favorites of the jitterbug generation, for pictures that are now on their way. Paramount put Artie Shaw into Second Chorus, Orrin Tucker...
Birthday. The late Robert Louis Stevenson; his goth; observed by Annie H. Ide Cockran, widow of Tammany Orator Bourke Cockran. Stevenson formally deeded it to her when she was a little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...