Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.M.A. supported a forerunner of Blue Shield, but it turned down, as TIME reported (Dec. 13), a Blue Cross-Blue Shield proposal for a non-profit national health insurance company...
...home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters in Burlington, N.C. There he branched out into rayon, then an infant industry...
About a year ago, the National Student Association came up with what looked like a good thing. It was a Student Council Clinic. The idea was that since most student governments come up against similar problems, a lot could be learned from inter-council discussions. One council could profit from another's experience in an atmosphere unfettered by formality or Mr. Roberts' ubiquitous rules...
...questions I should like to ask are these. Is it the opinion of the CRIMSON editors that undergraduates would like or would profit by a non-credit course or half course? Is this a favorable educational situation for teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...
When film production lags, most cine-moguls chew their fingernails. But while Producer David O. Selznick is killing time, he makes a tidy profit with a sideline which Hollywood calls flesh-peddling. Unlike an actors' agent, whose commission is fixed at 10%, Selznick gets fat loan-out fees for the stars who are under contract to him as a producer. Because he is Hollywood's shrewdest publicizer of talent, his stars are in great demand. His profit is the fees, minus the salaries he would be paying the players anyhow...