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Word: profitable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several banks recognize the multi-fold problems facing check-shy students and have instituted a service which for a moderate fee advances the money and undertakes the tracing of a late government check. Since commercial establishments can shoulder student worries for a small fee, the University's non-profit loan office should extend a similar program virtually free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Money Is The Object | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

Cream. Left-wingers, and others chronically suspicious of big profits, no matter how made, would doubtless see iniquity in the Texas Eastern deal. Others would see it as a classic case of venture capitalism in which everybody stood to make a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Make a Buck | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at an average price of 26.7?, Texas Eastern's backers confidently expect to gross $30 to $40 million a year. If they do, they expect that more than half will be operating profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Make a Buck | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...made a fairly pretentious start in carmaking. He began making cars in June of 1946 in two plants -in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marion, Ind. By the end of his first year he had turned out 16,637 cars, for a gross of $12,073,721 and a net profit of $476,065. By expanding the company's two factories, Crosley expects to step up the rate of production from a current 2,700 cars a month to 3,000 early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Growing Midget | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...profit of $884,124 for the third quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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