Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Profit & Loss. Nixon's running mate will probably be husky, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and widely known because of his televised battles with Soviet U.N. delegates. A New England patrician (TIME cover, Aug. 11, 1958), Lodge would have little farm-belt appeal, but he would add plenty of foreign policy luster to the ticket if the election fell in a time of international crisis...
...brand of leadership, CAB scrapped the cut-rate charter fares charged by nonscheduled and scheduled airlines flying for the Air Force's Military Air Transport Service, biggest U.S. airline; CAB said that the low fares will be replaced by higher, published tariff rates, with a reasonable margin of profit. This removes the position of privilege that has enabled many nonskeds to grab MATS' business, will transfer much of the military personnel and freight now flown under charter for MATS to the scheduled airlines...
viggerish-profit from an illegal deal
...programs carried on the BBC and ITV can now originate outside the Commonwealth. U.S. network men in London and New York have been told privately that the quota will become even stiffer unless U.S. broadcasters buy more British programs. Just as the foreign market has long since become the profit margin for Hollywood movies, the British rerun is sometimes the difference between profit and loss for U.S. programs. For example, CBS is inching into the black on Sergeant Bilko thanks to BBC payments...
...entire working force of 25,500. He hired back a nucleus of 3,500. Although Grumman Aircraft's sales dropped from $236,846,861 in 1945 to only $37,615,540 the next year, the company-unlike most of the rest of the industry-made a profit...