Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time to clean house and the law faculty might well profit by such time-tested, if homely, anioms...
...first he discussed the case of Mr. Cuse who forced the State Department willynilly to grant him a license to export airplanes to Spain (see col. 3). The President declared that 90% of U. S. business was willing to give up profits for the sake of preserving absolute neutrality and only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid...
...seems to have much faith in any existing method of preventing the young men from following the dollar to war. If it can fulfill its utilitarian opportunities, the Church may well return to provide that civilizing unity which was its to give during the Middle Ages, which the profit motive supplied for the expanding capitalism of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and which the League of Nations has failed to provide in our time...
...stock for 382,300 shares outstanding at a declared value of $15 a share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will be President Baumhogger...
...employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching is common, and since the use of the track as the basis...