Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Should the manufacture and sale of armaments for private profit be prohibited by international agreement...
This policy cannot easily be condoned. The reason for it is not financial, since the dining halls already earn the University a neat profit. Although this profit is used for a worthy cause, it is profit nevertheloan, thus amashing any excuse that the high rates for the small contracts are economically necessary. It has been argued, also rather illogically, that club members not only form a distinct minority, but also make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this...
...Universal Pull-Model" which will be demonstrated this season and put into production next year. Probable price: $995 f. o. b. factory. Estimated operation cost per acre of cotton (including repairs, fuel, labor, interest): 98?. Planters have declared that with such machines they could grow cotton at a profit even if the price dropped below...
...time to review the Treasury's vast operations since his Administration took office. High points: 1) with completion of its present program, the Treasury will have refunded in two years no less than $8,000,000,000 of Wartime loans, and retired, largely from its so-called "gold profit," another $674,000,000 of Panama Canal and Consol bonds; 2) saving in debt service will be $100,000,000 yearly; 3) though the national debt has risen to $28,800,000,000 in the last two years, present interest costs of $800,000,000 annually are actually less than...
...store in Detroit less than 40 years ago, he branched & branched until today his chain has some 700 units throughout the eastern half of the U. S. and Canada. Last year those stores sold to the U. S. middle classes $137,000,000 worth of assorted merchandise at a profit...