Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janeiro, with a population of 2,000,000, has only one public high school. (There are a hundred-odd others, but they are privately owned, and run for a profit that averages 30% a year...
...year-old "Ex," owned by the City of Toronto, is worth $26,000,000 (in land, buildings and equipment), and always makes money. In 1940, the gross take was $813,554, the net profit $32,903. In its best previous year, 2,039,000 customers passed through its rococo Princes' Gate. This year, after a look at the opening-day crowd, Manager Elwood Hughes guessed that in its two weeks the "Ex" would be visited by close to 3,000,000 customers. That, he sighed happily, would keep 250 men and 14 trucks busy 24 hours a day, just...
...named John Albert Kramer, should certainly not take exception to it-though he might want to add a few things. For instance, the kind of tennis he plays is about to be of some use to his country. And shortly thereafter, it might be turned to more immediate profit to himself...
...first to discover the marvelous possibilities for profit in the Treasury's long-standing policy of pricing new issues so favorably that they would soon bring a premium in the market. Since all banks were eager to get more than their allotments of bank-eligible securities, an individual like Hosford could borrow the money to buy as much as $1 million worth on no more collateral than $10,000, sell the bonds at a handsome profit as soon as they rose. For example, if a $100 par bond rose to $100⅜, the $10,000 could bring a profit...
...tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman can make a profit out of the country-by writing about...