Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...
...greenbacks" authorized in the so-called Thomas Amendment to the 1933 Emergency Farm Relief Bill, to the issuance of silver certificates against the mountain of silver acquired by the Treasury since 1934. And there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week both the French franc and Dutch guilder were near the gold export point. Metal shipments to Europe were expected to start shortly, reversing a flow which, with one minor...
...count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings of a gentleman or lacks vision and understanding...
...their mutilated masterpieces is no indication that there still exists a belief that papers are graded in such unorthodox methods as the stairway system. Such a desire might even be attributed to a craving for knowledge, the interest of the eager scholar to know wherein he has erred, to profit by his mistakes and augment his fund of information even after examinations...
Owens-Illinois made $7,819,000 in 1935 as against $6,496,000 in 1934. This was the best profit in Owens-Illinois' history and did not include earnings of the recently acquired Libbey Glass Manufacturing...