Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profit & Loss. It was Harold Stassen who had put the finger on Ed Pauley. He accused him of being one of several "insiders in the national Administration . . . profiteering in food." That was enough to bring Pauley to the committee's attention...
...also sold out 90% of his holdings-300,000 bushels of oats, 200,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil, 500,000 pounds of lard, more than 1,700,000 pounds of hides. On paper, selling out had cost him about $100,000 in profits. Still, he had to admit that he had "done pretty well . . . over all, I made a profit...
Proffered by the 1948 Album Board, the Prize Fund consists of a profit earned by the '43 yearbook under Reed's direction, Eric Larrabee '43, announced yesterday in New York that the first board of judges will include Frederick Lewis Allen, editor of Harper's Magazine, Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation...
Remaining members of the staff, many engaged at present in journalistic and literary fields, voted recently to distribute the '43 Album profit in prizes of $100 over a period of years "in honor of Dana Reed and in recognition of undergraduate writing such as that in which he participated...
...Profit Tour...