Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economy-minded old Benjamin Franklin had argued at the Constitutional Convention against paying U.S. Presidents anything but their expenses. Combine power and profit in the presidency, warned Franklin, and the nation would get not the best men for the job, but the most avaricious, "the bold and the violent." Franklin was overruled: George Washington got $25,000 and a rent-free mansion...
...time to make the following pleas. One of them is new, one of them is middle-aged, and the other has become a semi-annual classic. But all three, if acted upon, would help to make examination time even more a period of joy, gladness, and genuine profit than it is already...
...ahead to finish the job-and in his own way. To succeed McNabb, who died last week, the directors chose him president. At 29, he is boss of a company that sold $18 million worth of motion-picture cameras and equipment last year, and earned a net profit of some...
...without meals, pillows, blankets, extra stewardesses of other costly incidentals. The fare: $29.60 (v. $44.10 on regular flights, and rail coach fare of $27.30). With passenger loads up to a good average of 77% of capacity, the coach planes so far have netted Capital a good profit. Similar coach services were being planned or flown by TWA (between Kansas City and Los Angeles), Northwest (between Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska), National (between New York and Miami), and Continental (between Kansas City and Denver...
...winds will blow the profit...