Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know I said a year ago right in this very room that if this thing kept on that I doubted if any steel manufacturer in the United States could earn a dividend on his common stock. I say now at present prices they are not earning dividends on their preferred stock...
Although Shipmates may not enhance his reputation, Robert Montgomery is almost certain to earn more startling remuneration than the $10,000 bonus which he received after playing with Norma Shearer in Strangers May Kiss. His qualifications, personal rather than technical, are partly the result of a respectable upbringing in Beacon, N. Y., partly of a long neck which causes his head to incline in a quizzical fashion. His eyes have the kind of crinkle that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where...
...credits, Antioch aims to enroll only those who will profit by its system. Next autumn it will take in 45 fulltime students, applicants too young to go into outside work. These will take special courses, pay $425 for their tuition. A & B students pay but $300. Because the workers earn part of their way, their average expenses are not much more than $500. Minimum expenses for a fulltime student will be about...
...Goose Step by Upton Sinclair we read: "Today he (Buck) boasts that he is worth 400 millions. . . . Assuming that his services in providing the world with tobacco were worth $100 a week it would have taken 154,000 years to earn his own share of this money. A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on his money-making methods contains the assertion that he 'persistently, continuously and consciously violated the law.' " I quote again: "This man who is worth $400,000,000 pays only $828 taxes in the State where he lives in a magnificent palace...
...valued the R. F. & P. at $29.400.000 for 1922, $30,100,000 for 1923. Section 15a allowed the road to earn $3,570,000 for those two years. But its books showed a profit of $5,353,393.68 or an excess of $1,783,393.68 above the legal rate of 6%. The Commission ordered it to turn back one-half of that amount?...