Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that any farmer who cannot sell his corn for better than 45? a bu. on the farm can put it in a sealed corn crib and borrow 45? a bu. on it from the Government. If the price of corn rises, the farmer can sell it at a profit and pay off his loan. If the price of corn falls, the Government will take the corn and cancel the loan. With 45? sure in pocket, Iowa's corn huskers can count on a minimum return of $168,000,000 for this year's crop compared...
...President Roosevelt as a practical farmer," began a dispatch to the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune last week, "has given concrete proof that agriculture can sustain itself and even operate at a profit without the aid of his New Deal...
...years, said the farm's two white and five Negro tenant families looked forward to a reasonably comfortable winter. The farm, which directly adjoins a New Deal homestead project, has never paid its own way, but this year Manager Moore thought that it might even show a profit. Most of the farm's crops go to feed its 130 cattle, he explained, so he could not tell for sure about profits until next spring's stock sales...
...from the New York and Chicago Federal Reserve Banks. Hudson, largest of the independents, sold 300,000 cars in 1929, dropped to 38,000 in 1933. Sales for the first nine months of this year came to 56,676 cars, mostly Terraplanes, and Hudson may make a small 1935 profit...
...management of Chairman Ransom Eli Olds, who founded the Reo company in 1904 but who had been in virtual retirement for ten years when, in 1934, an intracompany row brought him back to active leadership. During the first half of 1935, Reo made $42,156 but even this tiny profit was welcome after five consecutive years of deficits. Of late Reo has become primarily a truck maker, in 1934 turning out only 3,854 passenger cars as against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business but passenger-car sales thus...