Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very ordinary nightmare to the sweating Bantu natives who work it for as little as fourpence a day, under 1,200 white men and a blistering sun. Roan Antelope is a comparatively small source of profit to the territorial Government of Northern Rhodesia. The Government, getting most of its revenue from income tax, native taxes, customs stamps and licenses, is actually poor. For that reason Northern Rhodesia's executive council lately raised the native poll tax from 10 to 15 shillings. For black Roan workmen, who cannot quit during their contract term, that was the last straw. Last week...
Founded in 1915 by William Fox who spent 15 years building up his enormous theatre chain, Fox Film Corp. became, except for Paramount, the biggest cinema company in the world before its founder was ousted in 1930. Reorganized in 1933. the company's net profit for 1934 was $1,273,000. Twentieth Century owns no theatres at all, exists solely as a medium for the producing genius of excitable little Darryl Zanuck. The company was organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded...
...authorized representative of TIME Inc. nor did TIME Inc. receive from him the subscriptions in question which would have been accepted only if accompanied by the full retail subscription price. Reason: TIME's only means of protecting subscribers from unauthorized solicitors is to refuse them any profit on the sale of its publications...
...often brewers became their own best customers." His next job was in a sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority...
...Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from a nice, quiet revolution . . . not a Communistic revolt . . . a revision of the region's implanted ideas, a clarification of issues, a realistic and direct recognition of existing social problems, a redirection of the South's courage and audacity, and a determination that the Southern conscience shall...