Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best quarter in its history. Studebaker also hung up a record with a net of $4.2 million, up almost 162% above 1947's first quarter. Packard, which had been deep in the red in the first quarter last year because of steel shortages, totted up a $1.3 million profit, more than it made...
Only Chrysler was out of step. It furnished a prime example of how the profits of the industry-with a break-even point well above that of prewar-might melt if production had to be trimmed. Chrysler, nipped by shortages and wildcat strikes, reported a gross of $336,519,790, up only 6% from last year's first quarter. But its net profit was down 30% to $14.9 million...
Anyone who is curious about how bestsellers are put together might profit from a hard look at Peony. Here, in a neat economy package, are crammed all the formula-tested and cliche-ripe ingredients for which book-club members seem to have an insatiable appetite. (Peony, a Literary Guild selection, is Miss Buck's tenth book to hit the jackpot with a major book club...
...Because four French Communist dailies had failed to show a profit, the government, which controls the plants that publish them, suspended the papers. The New York Times punned...
...thus charged the same price for cement laid down at any one job. The plants closer to the consumer than the basing point plant tacked on a "phantom freight" which was more than the shipping cost; the plants farther away charged a freight which was less (and took less profit...