Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Wallace: "There is a long chain that links unknown young hoodlums in North Carolina or Alabama with men in finely tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away South." Wallace added: "If the U.S. does not get right on the segregation problem, she will lose her position of leadership in world affairs...
Railroads. Thanks to a rate boost in May, the Class 1 U.S. railroads clicked off a $76.7 million net profit in July, more than double 1947's July net. For the first seven months of 1948, the roads netted $334 million, compared to $247 million in the 1947 period...
...four war years the railroads earned, according to Franklin Roosevelt, "the gratitude and admiration of the entire American people." They also earned a fat $2,893,000,000 profit that hauled many a road out of receivership and is now paying for its postwar re-equipment program. If Tom Clark won his suit, many a road would be threatened with bankruptcy...
Black-Market Hero. During the war Grant rides high ("I'm too old to fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like...
...variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...