Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly: "I feel that what has already been said, and I suppose is yet to be said, refers ... to my country. ... I have also the feeling that there is very limited understanding of the tremendous responsibilities and tremendous burdens . . . the people of my country have undertaken . . . and that you profit by it as much...
...work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents, dug out 177,000 metric tons of ore, sold it to Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. at a profit...
Optimists took heart from the fact that six successive days of 1,000,000-share-plus trading, which meant a lot of profit-taking by those who had bought stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike...
...width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced he had a salable car that he spent $18 million to retool. Last week, shy Ed Barit was beaming with good news: in 1947 Hudson had doubled its profit to $5.7 million. Better still, said Barit, by late May-thanks to an "extra 5,000 monthly tons of steel from a Government mill he had leased-Hudson could step up its 600-car daily production to 1,000 a day. At that-rate, Hudson could shoot...
Last week McDonald was sure that he had finally tuned in on his market. He announced that Zenith's hearing-aid division had chalked up a handsome profit, though he was mum on the figures (they "were too good to say anything about to competitors...