Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent $137,000,000 at the Mart. In 1934 there were 205,000 buyers who spent $177,000,000. Last year, Mart management estimates, the Mart attracted 235,000 buyers who spent $216,000,000-a 22% increase over 1934 purchases. The Mart has begun to show an operating profit, though it has yet to make an appreciable return on its investment. Marshall Field (as manufacturer) is its own best tenant, occupying some 1,290,000 sq. ft. The other 550 tenants occupy the same footage, leaving some 600,000 sq. ft. still vacant. Space rents at about...
...great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Circus (TIME. April 18, 1932). Goliath III was last seen in the U. S. on Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Because he ate too much to show his promoters a profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally a little smaller (three tons) than Goliath. For years he has been wasting slowly away. Lately he had begun to lose 10 lb. a day and to turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed...
Diametrically unlike the ordinary European sight-seeing tour, the Experiment in International Living operates on a strictly non-profit basis and aims to instill in American students a closer knowledge and appreciation of European life and customs...
...tribute to Mr. Watt's far-sighted idealism that the Experiment in International Living has never lost sight of its fundamental purpose and aim-to create lasting friendships among the youth of different nations. Since it is conducted on a non-profit basis, it has provided immeasurable benefits for scores of American students interested in European travel. I write as one who, having twice partaken in Mr. Watt's Experiment, feel that it is decidedly one of the most worth while ways in which a college student can spend his summer vacation...
...wonder whether Mr. Warren, who was treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, expressed the policy of his company in the terms of his will. We wonder whether he refused to profit from policies written for families whose sons would forever be considered unworthy of his scholarships, and whether the company which he represented in such a major office would freely give employment to the sons of such families...