Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts Goes to the Dogs," the author states that attempts to reform a situation that allows the track operators a profit of 15 per cent on an annual betting business of $20,000,000 have so far been ineffectual. He cites the effort by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 to increase the percentage taken by the state, which was beaten at the last legislative session...
...upgrade and the railroads are again buying equipment to replace rolling stock run ragged during the depression. With 1939's financial statement yet to be issued, Edward Budd well knew last week that after a net loss of $400,937 in 1938 (1937's net profit was $3,010,000) his company was back in the black again. Much of the credit went to the streamline train division...
...stuff of same agency in New York, Mike Niedorf, claims that this is bunk, that if and when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album of eight sides with one side apiece by Jesse Stacy, Clarence Profit, Mary Lon Williams, Count Basic, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Johnson, and others. This reviewer heard several test pressings and if all the rest are as good the album will be really colossal. . . . Raymond Scott has been doing very well with a little ditty entitled "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," swiped from...
...motor accident broke President Mac Farlane's back. Two years later Minneapolis-Moline netted $170,000, and indomitable President Mac Farlane, in his wheel chair, flew 15,000 miles around South America drumming up business. In 1938 Minneapolis-Moline had a profit of $727,000, and President Mac Farlane was riding horses for amusement...
Meanwhile, big oil companies put up too many gasoline stations, and price cutting took so much of the profit out of gasoline retailing that even a cooperative found it hard to save much in the spread between the wholesale and retail prices of gasoline. So, last year, Cowden got his board of directors to vote for building a co-op refinery. This week, near bleak little Phillipsburg on the Kansas prairies, the new $750,000 plant is making its first run of gasoline. Middle-sized as refineries go, it will supply 40% of C. C. A.'s needs...