Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high crimes and misdemeanors.* He was U. S. District Judge Halsted Lockwood Ritter of Florida. As in the last two impeachments voted by the House (Judge George W. English of Illinois in 1926 and Judge Harold Louderback of California in 1932), the charge, in effect, was skulduggery for private profit in bankruptcy cases...
...roads took in a little more than $3,600,000,000. But wages, material costs, other operating expenses also increased. Estimates of 1935 earnings vary from a $15,000,000 deficit (Bureau of Railway Economics) to an $8,000,000 profit (Standard Statistics). Even the $8,000,000 profit figure, however, indicated a profit of less than 1/10 of 1% on the roads' capitalization...
...already operating under a 2?-a-mile fare, that many Southern roads charge only 1.5? a mile. It cited the recent experience of the Southern Railway and the Seaboard Airline to show how lower rates had increased passenger revenue and turned a Seaboard passenger deficit into a passenger profit. The I.C.C. admitted that Eastern carriers were not running as many nearly empty coaches and Pullmans as Southern roads but argued that there was still plenty of room for more passengers. It did not think that Eastern carriers would lose as much revenue on the new rates as the difference between...
...first question, the results of which will be announced on Friday, is: "Should the manufacture and sale of war munitions for private profit be prohibited...
...service at the close of 1935 were 1,746,000 below the peak telephone census of 1930, Bell Telephone users made an average of 61,000,000 calls per day in 1935, a little more than 4% increase over 1934. The Bell System took in $934,371,000. Profit was $132,795,000, about $21,627,000 better than the previous year. A. T. & T. paid its usual $9 common dividend, earned $7.11 a share, charged the remaining $42,000,000 to surplus. The 1934 earnings were $5.96 a share. Telephone stock sold at $172 last week, about 24 times...