Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same prophecy has been made weekly for six weeks. For the Excess Profits Tax, though nobody likes its present shape, is a defense "must." Franklin Roosevelt has declared that U. S. rearmament must make no new "war millionaires." He therefore attached an excess-profits tax, like a price tag, to two other pieces of defense legislation that businessmen, the Defense Advisory Commission, the Treasury, the Army & Navy all wanted: 1) repeal of the Vinson-Trammell Act's profit limitation on plane and warship orders; 2) permission for defense manufacturers to amortize new plants (for tax purposes) in the short...
...Acquainted Congress with his National Defense Advisory Commission's rules to govern defense contracts. Point No. 1: speed first, price & profit second. Point No. 2: Labor is to keep its wage rates, hours standards, overtime...
...dealing here one day with 375,000 [men in the Army], and the next day with 750,000, and then 1,200,000 and then 2,000,000 and then 4,000,000." There may be still more changes-for the laudable reason that the Army is trying to profit by the lessons of this...
...industries and communications of Germany . . . affords one, at least, of the surest, if not the shortest, of all the roads to victory. Even if the Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea, or indeed, upon the Caspian; even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home...
...Golden Gate Exposition laid this year's plans on the modest basis of 4,000,000 visitors for the season. Last week the 4,000,000th visitor paid his way in, six weeks before closing. By that time the fair should have 6,000,000 attendance, a profit of $1,500,000 or more against last year's loss of $4,166,000. Of Treasure Island's original backers, 61% chose to be paid off last year at 35? on the dollar. The 39% who stayed may well end 1940 with 90? on the dollar...