Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlining the philosophy of communism, Hopper asserted that Russian society is based on human labor as the criterion of value. According to the Russian belief, he said, mankind will be able to reach unprecedented heights through sublimation of the profit motive...
...young beggar, summons a doctor. Mrs. Abbott cannot be moved, the doctor says, so Miss Herries is forced to put the Abbott's up. Gradually Abbott assumes control of the house and it soon becomes evident that he is the leader of a gang who aim to realize profit on the sale of Miss Herries' art treasures. It is easy for the villains to seclude her for she is a known recluse and nobody is surprised when she appears to have gone into complete solitary confinement. The play demonstrates convincingly the devilish control which Abbott's gang holds over Miss...
...largest dividend of the past year, some recipient should claim a stipend in the vicinity of $60. That semi-mythical person had not turned up yesterday, but one individual was seen proudly waving a $19 hward, while a Dunster man appeared greening over his net profit of $14 on the first year...
...emasculation, not only of adults but of boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing," Baron Aloisi, Italian representative at Geneva, condemns (TIME, Sept. 16) the Ethiopians as a barbarous and uncivilized race-what about the vaunted civilization of the Italians, who, for profit and gain during the centuries before the accession of Leo XIII to the Papal Chair, in 1878, castrated 3,500 Italian boys annually? Many died from the horrible operation; but the castrati, who survived and whose voices acquired the proper and desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos...
...Tireman Frank A. Seiberling groused about "a good volume of business but poor profit," blamed "the savagery of competition...