Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company which later joined Messrs. Libbey and Owens* to form in Libbey-Owens-Ford an eternal rival to Pittsburgh Plate. Although largest flat glassmaker. Pittsburgh Plate also expanded into the paint business and now ranks second to Sherwin-Williams as a U. S. paintmaker. But glass has a better profit margin, and Pittsburgh has by no means lost interest in glass. It got into safety glass through E. I. du Pont de Nemours, which made the binder, and for a while went 50-50 with the du Fonts in safety glass manufacture. In 1930 Pittsburgh bought out the du Pont...
Wholly ignored was the fact that the stockmarket might profit from a rest, that many a low-priced issue not included in the averages was still rising smartly. Also ignored was a good gain over last year in weekly carloadings, notable of basic goods like lumber (up 31%), coke (up 32%), ore (up 101%). And RFChairman Jesse Jones allowed the private banking house of Kidder, Peabody & Co. to underwrite an $8,718,000 Maine Central R. R. refunding plan instead of doing it himself...
...This being the case, the problem we now face as a nation is not one of expanding to any great degree our facilities for handling college and university students. It is rather that of improving the selective machinery in our school system which should sort out those who can profit most by four years of colleges and a subsequent professional training...
...only two (1921 and 1932) of the last 50 years has Swift & Co. failed to make a profit. Last year it contribute $17,000,000 of the $32,000,000 earned by the Big Four. In spite of last year's tonnage decline-Swift slaughtered barely half as many hogs as in 1934-rising price produced sales of $767,000,000, nearly $150,000,000 higher than in 1934. Profit was up more than $6,000,000, but the thrifty Swifts appropriated a $6,000,000 reserve for possible inventory losses in the future. Since 1885, when Gustavus Franklin...
Like most packers, Armour turned the corner in 1933, had a good year in 1934. In 1935. sales of $683,000,000 produced profit of only $9,349,000, leaving Armor with only 1.37? profit per dollar of sale. Mr. Cabell said he had observed "considerable consumer resistance" to high meat prices...