Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copper King and King. In a position to profit handsomely from devaluation, and known to have conferred with the young King last week, was Belgium's No. i financier, "Copper King" Emile Francqui...
...World Series, in which the two best baseball teams in the U. S. play each other, the complexities which determine possession of the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the world's championship at hockey, are entirely incomprehensible. In professional hockey, there is only one major league, divided for convenience & profit into two "groups" whose members play against each other regularly. Instead of awarding the Stanley Cup each season to the best team, officials of the National Hockey League hold not one but five series of post-season games, from which only the three feeblest of the nine teams...
Before those two developments, he could see little further profit in remaining in Washington. He had even announced that he was going home to run for Governor next year. Then he changed his tune: He would run again for Senator because other Senators seemed too anxious to be rid of him; he might even run for President. Senator Long had suddenly found reason to take his sideline seriously...
...there is no profit in being an also-ran, which is all that 10,000,000 votes can make a candidate. Vain as Huey Long is, his career shows that he generally chooses for profit rather than notoriety or glory. If he chooses for profit, his threat of entering the campaign will be something on which he can set a high price. Republicans have already calculated that the 13,000,000 votes which they polled last autumn must be the absolute minimum conservative vote in the U. S. If Huey Long can poll 10,000,000 votes as third-party...
...rose one delegate to deplore the rapidly growing automobile graveyards in vacant lots and prairies. "There's no profit nowadays in buying this junk," said he. "The cost of labor in removing the stuff would be greater than any profit you could get out of it. ... And besides there's not enough demand for this kind of material." Another delegate admitted, however, that Japan, biggest buyer of U. S. scrap (TIME, March 11), was now buying 400 tons of scrap aluminum a month. "They can use this material for making fuse caps," said...