Word: profitable
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Bouncing Back. U.S. tire builders, who cut prices 10% last spring, found their reductions premature. The record touring season last summer increased the demand for tires 10% above 1946. And the rise in labor and material costs nipped the profit margins of tire men. A month ago, General Tire & Rubber Co. announced a 7½% price increase. This week, the Big Four-Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear and U.S. Rubber-followed suit. Their boosts: from...
Unlike most writers' farms, the Andrews project makes a profit. But not enough to support Ibstone House. Since her husband has lost most of his fortune, Rebecca West must still write for a living. The U.S. market pays her top rates for practically anything she cares to write, and she writes at top speed. Her report on Lord Haw Haw's trial, some 6,500 words, was in the New Yorker's office 24 hours after the trial ended, and almost no editing had to be done on it. Says grateful New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
...profit will be made by the College on whet skimping, Lally disclosed, since the money saved will be used to purchase substitutes. Wheat saved will reach Europe indirectly. If it is not bought by the University, it will be released for Government purchase...
...Yankees had a selfish reason to complain: there wasn't much profit in facing a team that, in one game last summer, played to only 315 cash customers. Most big-league owners are convinced that St. Louis cannot properly support two big-league teams. They would like to see either the Browns' or the Cardinals' franchise moved to Detroit or Baltimore...
Best buy in books today is offered at 41 Bromfield St., Boston, at the headquarters of the Massachusetts Bible Society. As depository agent of the non-profit organization Harold P. Landers points out that sixty-five cents still furnishes the purchaser with an excellent, legible, 600-page Bible complete with the dedication of the 1611 translation committee to King James I. Mr. Landers, who has been selling the world's best seller for 35 years, has on his shelves even greater bargains for non-English speaking peoples. Three cents now supplies the South Sea missionary with portions of the Book...