Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes hear reformers say that business ought not to be competition for private profit but co-operation for public service. That is not the wisest way of putting the matter. . . . Modern business often looks like a huge system-or chaos -of competition for private profit; but it never really is that; it always is cooperation for public service. It is for the public service because if no one wants the product there will be no purchasers, no purchase price, no wages and no profits. Except insofar as it serves the public, business cannot...
...Virginian is a good road, not a big one. Operating revenues last year were only $14,400,000 but, after all charges, $3,574,000 was retained as clear profit. Its capitalization is conservative: 51% bonds, 49% stock...
...Sept. 30) were up 29% from 1934; its lease income up 70%. Sales were $6,486,000; lease-income was $1,041,000, not counting the partly-owned Peach Pitter; total income $7,528,000. Net income was $1,025,000, more than twice that of 1934 and best profit in the company's history. Food Machinery is now working on a machine for rolling alfalfa, saving alfalfa vitamins now lost in field drying...
...wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged on Fort Worth, Tex. last...
With hundreds of thousands of onetime coal miners on the dole and misery stalking the "depressed areas," coal mine owners claim they cannot raise wages because their combined operating profit for the whole United Kingdom last year was only ?4,000,000. The miners demand a combined wage increase of ?16,500,000 and their nation-wide vote last week authorized miner leaders to order a coal strike unless this demand...