Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp practices in business." Some of his critics thought it was the last straw when, in celebration of this year's "Brotherhood Week,"* Pastor Douds invited a Negro minister, the Rev. Edward Graham, to preach from his pulpit...
...Chrysler vice president who got in the last word. Eyeing G.M.'s 9.5% profit on 1948 sales (as compared to Chrysler's 5.69%), he snapped: "Perhaps . . . they have decided it is to their advantage to get more in line competitively...
Black Ink. Last year Blum's grossed some $3,500,000, and made an estimated net profit of $164,000. Most of it went to Levy, who controls three-fourths of the closely held stock. This year Levy expects to boost Blum's gross to $5,000,000. Next year Blum's will move into a new, block-long, $1,360,000 store and factory cut up into small, friendly little salesrooms. Levy doesn't want to lose that corner-store atmosphere. "We want to keep it the kind of place," he says, "where nobody will...
...poll did ask one worthwhile question; "Do you think that the dining hall system would profit from an impartial survey by a firm of restaurant specialists." It is perfectly true that the four to one vote for this survey cannot be considered a responsible student mandate because the question was phrased in the abstract, and took no consideration of the possible disadvantages of such a survey. It offered, in short, a simple, unthinking way to express general dissatisfaction with Harvard food...
When sales of Kaiser-Frazer cars went into a slump recently, K-F cut production from 675 to 350 units a day rather than cut prices. Last week, its annual report showed why it had no choice. Though its sales had increased 24% to $341,500,000, its 1948 profit, before taxes, had risen only 2%. And after taxes, the profit of $10 million was little more than half that of 1947, when no taxes were paid. In effect, K-F could not afford to cut prices because it was making less than...