Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PROSPECT HEALTHY On the whole the prospect is a healthy one. The new regime has taken quick hold, and although we lost to Worcester and only tied Andover, the season seems to be on the profit rather than on the loss side. The main results will not be seen for a year or so, until some of the Stahley merry men reach Varsity rating, and demonstrate the Value of coordination-and there are few who will deny the value of this characteristic whether in ornithology or on the gridiron...
...France persuaded suspicious Emperor Menelik to let her build an Ethiopian railroad. Not till 1917 was the last spike driven. Since then the road has carried 75% of Ethiopia's foreign trade, and in 1933 returned a profit of 200 francs per transported ton to its French investors, who then owned 20,000 out of 34,000 shares. Part of Pierre Laval's deal with Benito Mussolini last January was the sale of 2.500 French shares of railroad stock to the Italian Government (TIME...
...country with it and, under the pressure of terrific ballyhoo, made himself a quarter of a million dollars. Then, says Billy Rose, "One day I discovered that there was a show called the circus which had a daily overhead of $18,000 and still managed to make a profit of about $2,000,000 a year. . . . I decided that was the business I wanted...
...entire assets consist of $37,500 in cash and 500,000 shares of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., successor to an earlier company of the same name founded by James D. Dole in 1901. As all the holding company does is to hold, it reports no income, no outgo, no profit, no loss. It was formed in 1932 (along with the present Pineapple Co.) to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Dole company, which had grown long on inventory, short on cash. Its president, able young Atherton Richards, is also president of the Pineapple company, and dissolution of the holding...
...than 40% of all U. S. bottles. It turns out some 300,000,000 beer bottles, some 550,000,000 liquor bottles per year. The company made money and paid dividends through every year of Depression and for the twelve months ending Sept. 30 showed a $7,894,000 profit. American Can and Continental Can have recently invaded Mr. Levis' territory with their production of beer cans but Owens-Illinois does not worry much about the canned-beer menace, thinks the glass container so much cheaper than the tin container that no serious competition should result. Mr. Levis differs...