Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month tax year was too short a yardstick for this type of investing, observing "The successful realization of its [Mayflower's] objectives requires the averaging of profits and losses over a period of years, and a substantial portion of the profits of one year must be available to absorb losses of other years. Sound business judgment does not permit the annual distribution of all earnings...
...headed in that same direction again today unless we can bring the intelligence and courage of the engineer into industrial statesmanship. If increased wages and profits are to absorb the savings which the engineer produces . . . and there is not a reduction in price, which is essential to increasing consumption, thereby we are ourselves by our own neglect producing that mass of technological unemployment...
...ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from last week's decision was the I. C. C.'s order to the New York Central to absorb wharfage charges in Albany as it does at Boston...
...latest book one is led to think that Professor Nicoll, head of the School of Drama at Yale, has transferred his first love from the stage to the screen. As a time when many feel that the movies have not merely damaged the stage but will in the end absorb it, it is encouraging to find a well-known authority on the history of the drama presenting the public with a hopeful analysis of the possibilities of cinema...
...season will open with a meet on October 12 against the Crusaders. On the following week the University handicap will be held. This is open to everyone in the University and will absorb the energies of the cross country team but the next week they will run against Dartmouth and New Hampshire in a triangular race...