Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punch & Pokes of Profit...
...those of us who write for profit must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes...
...waiting crowd had something to cheer about. The Constitution, modeled on the U.S.'s, is the hemisphere's most leftist. It provides specific guarantees for labor: the right to strike, paid vacations, pay for Sunday work, pensions, dismissal bonuses, some profit-sharing. Everyone is guaranteed the right to education, employment and health insurance. The state is given an important role in planning a national economy. The right of private property is recognized and protected; while monopoly is forbidden, capital is to be entitled to a fair return; employer associations are permitted...
...Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter 20½-week strike which bled both sides white...
...shut up shop last Thursday when The Eliot House Grill closed its door for the summer because of the dearth of patrons. Famous as the home of the best hamburger in the University the Grill failed to attract enough lovers of the onion covered delicacy to show a coupon profit...