Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insulin selling in Washington, D.C. for $1.65 is priced at absolute wholesale. (Obviously, this sacrificed profit must be regained elsewhere; my guess is that it's in the prescription department...
...dynamic economy for wages to be ever increasing and for the wage segment of our national income to be enlarging through taking a larger share of an ever-increasing national income . . . It is possible for wages to increase and living standards to improve within the framework of a reasonable profit structure for American industry...
...confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic...
King Customer. What had caused the drop in retail sales? Most retailers blamed the unseasonal warm weather. But Fred Lazarus Jr., president of the Federated Department Stores, Inc., thought the trouble was something more than that. His chain had just increased its profit 27%-on a sales increase of only 13.6%-to a record of $12 million for the year ended in October. But, like others, Federated felt the November slump. Said Lazarus: "The market has become a buyers' market. The day of honest-to-goodness merchandising is back...
...calls "this crazy business," Gros will gross around $200,000 this year, but, like most showmen, he refuses even to guess his net. Said he: "It's like a Broadway play. You run for months just to break even and count on those last two weeks for your profit...