Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among them 50 woolen shawls, 1,800 yards of cloth and "quantities" of quilts, tablecloths, boots, shoes and rubbers which they planned to resell at a profit...
Since 1911, when a series of consolidations started the present Woolworth Co., the company has sold about $4,250,000,000 worth of merchandise, at a profit of about...
...THOMAS'S little book on war has the virtues and defects of almost all the peace literature which floods the country. The author presents tables and facts and statistics in an alarming array, includes poems, quotations from noted men and proves convincingly that as for war there is no profit in it, no glory from it, and no need for it. It is a handy reference book for earnest pacifists who seek arguments to confute their opponents...
Since Food Machinery's Founder Bean was no businessman, his son-in-law David Christian Crummey looked after profit-&-loss. Present head of the company is John David Crummey, David Christian's son, who at 57 has been a Methodist Sunday School teacher for 41 years and has a son studying for the Methodist ministry. Mr. Crummey lives on his pear orchard, near San Jose, is installing an employes' playground with swimming pool and dance floor...
...which will be chiefly Farmer-Labor in composition with some white collar element. The Socialists will unite with them, he says if they are permitted educational freedom to spread their doctrine. A likely basis for the new party's platform will be "production for use, not profit...