Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chemical Bank & Trust Co. which issued warehouse certificates against them. The certificates were then offered to the public at a price about 10% above wholesale platinum prices to cover the cost of assaying, ingoting, insurance, the first three months storage charges (5? an ingot per month) and the profit and commissions of the offerers. To the public the certificates were offered as a speculation and as a substitute for gold in hedging against inflation...
...keen observer of politics for 40 years and as an owner of a drug business for 21 years, I am convinced that the only solution of our economic problems and the present profit system, as well as the saving of our Democratic form of Government, lies in the direction President Franklin D. Roosevelt is leading...
sailed part of Argentina's estimated exportable surplus of 246,000,000 bu. including Argentine corn that had already reached Rotterdam. At Buenos Aires corn cost only 54? Thus shippers could pay the 25?U. S. tariff and still have a 51? margin for shipping cost and profit. Last week some 20,000,000 bu. of Argentine corn were already bound for the U. S. Most of it will not reach Chicago before mid-September...
...company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...
...speculative motorists who often wonder how the thousands of roadhouses and tourist camps which line U. S. highways make a profit, the sociology department of Southern Methodist University last week gave an answer. Most of such resorts, according to S. M. U., are chiefly used as places of assignation...