Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever since.(The stock went from $1f to as high as $63 before it split...
...Boston, the Rev. E. Harold Smith, editor of the Corpus Christi Chronicle, told the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems that the U.S. free enterprise system was "amoral" and failed to meet the requirements of the Roman Catholic Church. The profit motive, Father Smith said, was "legitimate if kept within bounds [but] the primary purpose of an economic system is to provide a living for all and not, therefore, huge profits for the few, with some measure of what remains trickling down to the lower levels. This is the age-old traditional Catholic teaching. Unfortunately . . . even among Catholics ... it has received...
...much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
...Profit. Eire's new Prime Minister John A. Costello abandoned Irish Airlines' plan to begin transatlantic service next week between Shannon and New York. Reason: the subsidies for the service were too high for Eire's poverty-stricken government...
...Fair Profit. The Aviation Commission of tiny (pop.: 11,738) Columbus (Ind.) reported that the city's airport last year earned $4,225 from the sale of soybeans grown on the airfield...