Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million days of work she would give French unemployed, reckoned her advertising value as greater than that of any French creation since the Eiffel Tower was put up as a world wonder in 1889. Last week, however, Frenchmen, essentially thrifty, wanted to know what Normandie's operating profit is going to be, having long ago resigned themselves to the unlikelihood that she will earn satisfactory interest on the capital France has invested...
...Total receipts were approximately seven million francs ($461,720)," said M. Cangardel. Subtracting from this the $250,000 operating cost would leave an operating profit for the maiden voyage of $211,720, but some sort of bow had to be made to payment of fixed charges, depreciation and insurance. Not explaining precisely how he figured these, M. Cangardel said roundly, "Normandie made a profit on her maiden voyage of one million francs...
...into the record copies of complicated contracts between operating utilities and their affiliates by which the operating companies paid 2½% of gross earnings for management, 7½% of gross cost of constructing plant and equipment, 1½% of the cost of all purchases, a 30% margin of profit on sales of electric appliances to their affiliates- to illustrate ''how the profits of an operating utility can be siphoned out by a holding company." "It is," the Senator declared, "merely a scheme whereby the local utility does the same business it did originally, in the same way, with...
...week every newspaper in Alaska headlined an announcement by Kennecott's President Earl Tappan Stannard that the Kennecott mine would reopen this week, hiring 250 workmen. Copper prices are not much better than they were when the mine was closed but President Stannard felt he could make his profit from the mine's byproducts, silver & gold...
Even where the end of NRA would raise no old ghosts, its effects on the complex structure of U. S. Business were incalculable. The unstable ice industry may fall into confusion but manufacturers of ice-making machinery will probably profit. Almost no modern ice-making machinery has been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect...