Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal business, and I also got into the security business. I never made anything out of the coal business. but I speculated and made a little out of the securities, and I got ?? I wanted a way of life, a way of life rather than just to make money...
...working on areas of weakness. In the late 1950's, for example, the library began collecting Oriental manuscripts, of which it had only a few. "There were opportunities. the prices weren't high. and there wasn't much competition. "Hofer says." It goes like that. We use our money well...
...Coop's profit goes back to the membership at the end of the year. The other 18 per cent gets cut in half by taxes, and the remainder is all the Coop has left for reinvestment and growth. Although the Coop appears to have a lot of money, it really doesn't. There are not large sums hidden away in the vaults of the Harvard Trust. In fact, whenever the Coop has needed to expand in recent years, it has had to rely on debt-financing...
UNLIKE most college cooperatives, the Coop pays a rebate on every item in the store from drugs to texts to cigarettes. The mark-up on cigarettes and records is so low that after the Coop pays a rebate on them, it ends up at times losing money. The Yale Co-op for instance, only offers a rebate on those items with a high mark-up. The Coop's policy has always been to pay its members a dividend on every item they purchase...
...continue paying rebates." Brown says." Either we get the margin up or the expenses down. If we get the margin up people will cut our throats because prices are higher. If we get expenses down, we have to cut services. For instance, we could have a lot of money if we cut back or eliminated our charge account business or our Saturday check-cashing department, but we consider these important services for our members and ones they would not want to see eliminated...