Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profits & Losses. On top of these added costs, traders disgusted with shipping delays began switching from the Caribbean port of Barranquilla, at the Magdalena's mouth, to the Pacific port of Buenaventura, which is linked to Bogotá by train and truck. Result: Naviera Colombiana's operations, which once yielded a profit averaging a million and more pesos a year, showed a loss of 212,000 pesos ($123,000) in the first half...
Aircraft. The balm of $46,563,685 in defense orders, said Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Robert E. Gross, had turned his company's postwar deficits into a $5,310,151 profit for the first six months of 1948. To see it through the rest of the year, Lockheed had a $196,421,000 backlog, most of it in military orders...
...Healthy Profit. Moving to California, Hoiles bought the Register, doubled its circulation, became the richest man in Orange County as he added one profitable paper after another to his string...
...started work on his older brother's newspaper in Alliance for $2 a week, was making $10,000 a year when they had a falling-out over R.C.'s labor-baiting views. Then R.C. published an anti-union paper in industrial Mansfield, Ohio, sold out (for a profit) after enemies blew up his front porch...
Each student put in $50 to pay expenses, and has already earned it back, with a little profit besides. They also get 16 hours' college credit for two semesters of theater arts. Last week, with the trip more than half over, Professor Wright thought it had been worth all the bother. "We can't teach the high art of the theater here," says he. "But there's plenty of time to teach the students Shaw and Shakespeare in school. This is show business, pure and simple, and from the bottom up." And he thought that he knew...