Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elsewhere ''The Bankers" are supposed to be sinister Merchants of Death, greedy for war profits. In Japan, though they profit from her wars, the traditional role of "The Bankers" is to refuse to lend quite as much as the Army & Navy every year call "imperative" for further military Empire-building...
...Senators commonly travel abroad for pleasure & profit when Congress is not in session. Equally common is the practice of dispatching protective committees to foreign capitals to make demands, usually futile, for payment on defaulted dollar bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...Zeeland, the Kingdom's unsmiling New Deal Premier, when he devalued the National currency (TIME, April 8). This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...
Transferred to the U. S., Story became their legal property, the Burnetts staying on as editors, working alternate weeks as usual. Under the Cerf management. Story grew to some 30,000 circulation but it got few advertisements, showed no profit. It attracted the manuscripts of many an ambitious U. S. writer, "discovered" William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Peter Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view...
Prime point of the Morrow plan was that United Stores Corp. would receive 444,840 shares, or 37%, of the new common stock at a special price which would give it a profit of $437,000 in return for money spent in acquiring landlord's claims. That, said the Special Master, was an "unconscionable profit" which Congress never intended when it passed the new bankruptcy amendment. Equally displeased were the common stockholders who had a p!an of their own. They wanted the Morrows to get only what they had spent for landlord claims, plus a small profit...