Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred businessmen, meeting in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler yesterday, heard president Conant discuss the responsibilities of Americans and American universities to the world economy. Conant called "equality of opportunity" a significant American ideal which has meaning "only in a competitive society in which private ownership and the profit motive are accepted as basic principles...
Grounds for Hope. Now, I devoutly hope that this view of mine may prove to be correct. But the United States and the Western democracies of Europe will fail to profit by the hard experiences they have undergone if they did not take every measure of prudent defensive preparation which is open to them. While taking all the necessary steps and above all maintaining a solid front, we should not, however, be hasty in abandoning our hope in the United Nations Organization. It may be that the Soviet Government and their Communist fifth columns in so many countries will...
...With fashion shows, free nylons, plushy bars and season tickets, he boosted attendance to a major-league peak of nearly 2,300,000 in 1946. MacPhail said he sold out for $2,000,000 (his ex-partners would neither confirm nor deny it), which would leave him a net profit for the three years of at least...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME...
...Many Planes. The American transport plane is a vital tool of air power. But the airlines themselves were in a bad way; in the first seven months of 1947, only Eastern and Inland Air Lines managed to make an operating profit. Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other...