Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the principle of graduated payments might well be incorporated. Large corporate organizations, whether in industry or agriculture, in the past have obtained from the Government certain advantages which oftentimes have enabled them to profit to an unusual extent. ... I would ask your most earnest consideration of the advisability of applying the same principle to the sugar payments by means of an amendment [to the proposed bill] which would provide for payments at rates for large operating units lower than those applicable to family-size farms...
...temporary chairman of the convention just prior to his address, listed nine fundamental principles of the "American system." Among them was the provision for an honest money and banking system, the restoration of the balance between farm and industrial income, the abolition of laws which seek to eliminate either profit or loss, abolition of governmental competition with private business, and the elimination taxation for the maintenance of a vast bureaucracy, and the avoidance of foreign entanglements...
...possible, though unlikely, that the Ford family drew down enough dividends to hide the real profit figure. As the rich go, the Fords can hardly be called spenders. Wages and other operating expenses were higher last year than in 1934, but the tremendous rise in volume should have more than offset increased costs. Henry Ford's explanation, were he ever to give one, would probably be that he is not interested in profits, only in cars...
...funds used to carry installment purchases of automobiles, radios, refrigerators, etc., etc. For this borrowed money the financing companies are now paying 1% or less. When they loan it to a time buyer, they get from 12% to 25%. That spread is by no means all clear profit, for installment paper means high overhead. Nevertheless, favored still further by a tremendous pickup in the volume of installment buying, financing companies are reporting record high earnings. Last month Commercial Investment Trust Corp. upped its dividend, declared a 20% stock dividend. Last week its traditional rival, Commercial Credit Co., also upped...
...year sales were about the top for a 2O? brand. In Paul Jones there was little money at 10?. Nevertheless, Paul Jones and other 10? brands had scared the Big Four into deep price-cutting on Camels, Chesterfields, Lucky Strikes and Old Golds, with the result that the profit margin for dealers was down to almost nothing...