Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen his face in action until this present March of Time and it explains a great deal, including his recent saying, "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so that they can sell their wares." While munitions makers undoubtedly profit from war, as do many other persons, they are no more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas...
...subscription fees (which also covered fellowship dues in the A. M. A.). Advertisers last year paid the Journal $727,112. Smaller items made the Journal's total 1934 income $1,439,751. Cost of operating was $825,781 (including $399,598 for wages paying 518 employes). Profit...
...supposed to permit a druggist to make his own ice cream at a considerable saving. No mixing is done in the store; the prepared "mix"' is bought from dairy companies. The dairy companies much prefer to sell not ''mix" but ice cream, in which the profit is bigger...
...unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul of the Postal regulations because if the chain is broken the participants are guilty of making promises they cannot keep. And there is nothing to prevent a sharper from making a handsome profit by mailing out 10,000 letters with his name at the top of each list...
...Chemistry A, Philosophy A, and others, now made up in large part of bored students drudging away in hopeless apathy, will in the future be composed of men who, having only themselves to thank for their presence, need be fed no intellectual pap, spoonful by spoonful. No less profit from the new Decalogue will accrue to the University by casting out courses like Biology A, which offer little sound knowledge of the subject, and still less of the methods of biological work and thought. Freed from this dead weight, the departments will betray their trust if they do not transfer...