Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infested Penzance, leave their winsome booty strangely inviolate until it is wrested from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight which ensues, the comic spirit vanishes, and the bucaneers receive the cold steel for their delicacy. A trifle more humor might also be inserted with profit in the scene during which Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy tenderly resurrect the piece de resistance of the evening, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life...
Research Associates Inc. expects to develop inventions, discoveries and patents of its own members, and by applying these to the betterment of the public weal to encourage further help from outsiders. The charter states that no profit may accrue to any member...
...into the liquor business. It bought an interest in a brewery, secured exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like many another liquor company, Canada Dry had overestimated U. S. liquor consumption, taken a substantial loss on sales through price markdowns...
...common stock since 1931. That year for the first time in its corporate history Crane Co. operated at a loss. A producer of capital goods, Crane was in the red for the next two years but in 1934 climbed out to the extent of $1,000,000 (1929 profit: $11,500,000). And last week the Crane directors recognized Recovery by declaring a $1 dividend on the preferred -first preferred payment in three years...
...they did so would be horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...