Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, had "not told the truth" when he said he "lost his socks," but had actually turned a profit...
...Times, looking for the guilty parties, suggested that U.S. weathermen might profit by some tips from their fellow forecasters overseas. Back in the 1890s, when many Americans were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the stratosphere, charting the upper air (with Germany's Richard Assmann) and collecting weather data from 30 stations all over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension...
...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
...history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
...Phillips, for example, barely mentions the cruise of Nathaniel Silsbee in the Benjamin. Silsbee was her captain at 19, with a crew of boys. The cargo cost $18,000. They sold it at the Isle of France (Mauritius), converted the profit to gold, and made about $54,000 in six months, because of the inflation of the currency during an embargo. They sent perhaps $25,000 to Salem (to pay for their ship and cargo), bought $30,000 worth of wine at the Cape of Good Hope, sold it at the Isle of France for about $90,000, and returned...