Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Whelan ingratiates himself with tobacco distributors who have been vexed with the price reductions so widely made by chain store organizations. And with the chain store managers and clerks also. The more tobacco United Cigar, Schulte and other chained employes sell, the more Union Tobacco shares they can earn. Union Tobacco is setting aside 300,000 shares for this smart sales project...
...American Banker calculates that 12 New York banks have this spring increased their capital by $209,390,000. Such advances it calls sensational and points out that banks used to figure that they must have ten times as much in deposits as they have in capital in order to earn proper dividends on that capital. Now the great New York banks average $8 of deposits, the paper says, to $1 of capital. Bankers Trust with $116,000.000 resources (capital, surplus and undivided profits) and $562,000,000 deposits has a 5 to 1 ratio...
...perusal of the current Treasurer's Report. The annual expenditure for these embryouie manuscripts totals in the College proper $1,262.53. The cost per volume and the ratio of book usage per scholar could not be ascertained although the inquiring agent was assured that the student whose inroads would earn him the title of a dollar-a-year man is rare...
...Slocum admires the study required to earn membership in the society, but maintains that it does not promise leadership in business. This is no doubt very fine. An exceptional mind is not necessary to high executive positions. The point of the whole controversy seems to be that unusual mental power is one though only one of several factors of primary importance in business success. Personality and the ability to win over the confidence of others are equally essential but nevertheless the Phi Beta Kappa man has proven that he has one at least of these necessary qualifications. The Daily Princetonian
...great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made it possible for "scientific investigators" to earn a living as such. The various branches of science are no longer a vocation; they are split into a diversity of professions. This was inevitable. A merely ordinary intelligence can use the technique which only a fine scientific mind could have devised. The main differences will be seen...