Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More embarrassing than the mail contract investigation was the revelation that the Ward Line had made a profit of more than a quarter of a million dollars out of the Morro Castle burning. This it was enabled to do by collecting $4,186,000 insurance for the vessel against a book value of only $3,923,000. The company pointed out that it had paid $2,737,745 of the insurance money to the U. S. Shipping Board against notes outstanding, that it was customary to carry high insurance on vessels to cover losses...
...continually saying there is too much emphasis on athletics, and those who say there is not enough. He has to be able to overlook most of the unfounded criticism he receives (and naturally criticism is expected); and he has to take whatever good there may be in it and profit...
...company be required to provide city officials with 40 free telephones. A 3% tax was calculated to yield $8,000. The annual charge for 40 telephones was $2,880. The council majority wanted whichever proposition would yield the city the greater net profit. For 15 minutes they argued about arithmetic. Then they voted 4 to 3 for a 1½% tax and 40 free telephones. As proof of their wisdom the majority offered the following calculations...
...remarkable battle sequences in the last reel, an international patchwork of action shots enterprisingly assembled and cleverly welded. Russian-born Léon Garganoff and some of his fellow émigrés in Paris started an unpretentious photographic laboratory called Société Anonyme Lianofilm, made enough profit to try a picture. Garganoff sent Nicholas Farkas, his crack cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films of naval maneuvers which were confiscated by the Japanese authorities. Upon...
...assets, you know, are only $6,000,000, yet last year we made a profit of nearly $1,000,000. and the way things are going, our directors will probably declare a 50% stock dividend when they meet next week. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System...