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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profited and will profit from Majczek's utter humiliation? How much have we all contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...coin. Kiss 'em or kill 'em, but don't come to grips with reality. Don't let the troops in Greece fire a shot-somebody might get hit. Don't worry about essential oil supplies in the Middle East-somebody might make a profit. Don't get into the China war-the government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy- rude persons might laugh. Stay out of the dirt and danger (where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Profit & Loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Inching Up. Big and Little Inch pipelines were proving as profitable as their new owner, Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., had expected (TIME, Nov. 24). In only eight months of operation they had carried $9,412,580.93 worth of natural gas, chalked up a net profit of $1,670,328.84, or more than 17% on sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Last week Cripps's chances of persuasion looked better, on paper. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress agreed in principle to the wage freeze. To make it less chilling, Cripps announced that he was giving British business one month to prepare "some plan for price and profit decreases," to match the wage-pegging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Too Bloody Awful | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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