Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physician regularly, and asks that he should not be required to contribute $15 a term to support a Hygiene Department that he never uses. The intricacies of University accounting cannot guarantee that the $100,000 is a concrete balance, but even the committee's figures, which ignore this profit, support the notion that such an amnesty for commuters would not push the department into...
...bluntly if it was true that he had had offers for his paper. Shrewd businessman Agusti, onetime bitter enemy of the Peróns, replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...
Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. is the biggest U.S. maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed...
...demanded "full disclosure" of the finances and personnel of Communist Party activities. He specifically asked revocation of the anonymity-of-source privilege now granted not only in first class mailing of propaganda literature but also in non-profit-organization tax regulations...
...made Tory a wench to be remembered. Larceny ends on a sad note, because sharp direction and dialogue have made its crooks into likable lads who seem to be getting a raw deal. This medium-budget picture's brisk, realistic details may make its manufacturers a tidy profit...