Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Profit...
...jump in food costs to students will not be to produce a "profit" for the Dining Halls Department, Reynolds declared. "Our effort in the dining halls is to come as near as possible to breaking even," he said...
...liquor, chemicals, textiles and building materials, profits improved almost without exception; utilities and food packaging were not far behind. In most cases, profit margins were no higher than last year, but volume was up. Some typical nets: $23 million for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (up 20% over the first quarter of 1947); $1.5 million for National Gypsum (up 15%); $2.1 million for Wm. Wrigley...
...received 4,000 tons at $39 a ton and resold them. At current prices of $75 a ton, this has brought an estimated profit of $140,000. She is scheduled to get 10% of Lone Star's monthly production (current output: about 20,000 tons a month) until her order is filled. She didn't think she would make as much as Germany estimated. But, said she, "I certainly hope to make a lot of money. That's the American...
...Behind. Proud as any small country bank, the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development announced that it had come profitably through its salad days. In nine months, President John J. McCloy had turned the World Bank's $1,063,805 deficit into $1,178,792 profit. Chief income: interest on $497,000,000 in loans to France, The Netherlands, Denmark and Luxemburg...