Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from $300 to $480 above list price for Hudsons at Washington's New York Avenue Motor Co. Others testified that they had traded in cars to dealers who promptly resold them for $300 to $700 profit...
...best of them all." Would he have thought so if he had known the tips came from the comics, he was asked? The customers' man brushed that off as other witnesses had. It was not important. Said he: "I'm only interested in making a profit...
...exempt status for gifts until his drive for funds was well under way; by the time he did apply, red tape would have kept him from getting approval until well after the time it would be useful. Failure to get the tax exempt status for gifts for a non-profit purpose cost him many contributions. Moreover, despite donations from the Harvard Liberal Union and from Harvard's American Veterans Committee chapter, fund raising has generally been slow...
...Dining Halls Department. He explains that the Dinning Halls are already an efficient and well-run organization. Why then should he object to an investigation by a competent outside organization? It could not be that a probe would be too expensive, for the Dining Halls, made a $49,000 profit last year and Mr. Reynolds will admit that they are only expected to break even. It could not be that the Dining Halls are poorly run because Mr. Reynolds states they are not. Yet the food served is neither tasty nor appetizing...