Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief characteristic of "Dave" Stern is his pugnacious aggressiveness. A practicing journalist who puts a high price on the power of his editorials, he picked up the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times in 1912, sold it at a profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks...
...only persons confused by Monet and Manet. At the Salon of 1865, before they ever met, elegant Edouard Manet squinted at a couple of seascapes signed with the name Monet and cried: "Who is this Monet who looks as if he had taken my name and happens thus to profit by the noise I make...
Most significant progress was made by the steel industry which, after losing nearly $19,000,000 in 1934, will make a substantial 1935 profit. With operations up to 54½ % of capacity, eleven steel companies reporting for nine months of 1935 showed profits of about $28,000,000 compared to a $7,500,000 deficit in the same 1934 period. Booming automobiles have boomed steel. Also important is the increased production going into several thousand miscellaneous uses from ash cans to architectural ornaments...
National Steel, only major outfit to make money throughout Depression, again ranked as No. 1 earner with a nine-month profit of $8,603,000, nearly doubling the earnings of the 1934 period. With business concentrated on steel's most profitable items, National is a boom-time merger that Depression has not withered...
Inland Steel ranks next to National as a Depression earner. Its nine-month profit for 1935 came to $6,668,000, more than twice the earnings of the same 1934 period...