Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Religion on the air was Dr. Floyd W. Reeves, longtime educator and now Personnel Director of Tennessee Valley Authority. He proposed a Government-owned & operated broadcasting system, controlled by a committee recruited from non-profit educational & cultural agencies. Dr. Reeves said he "spoke for the TVA." Where, asked the Board of Dr. Reeves, would the money or the radio channels to operate such a system come from? How much would it cost? Who would listen in? Dr. Reeves replied he had not fully considered such details...
...prices, immediately push up through that tricky 96 level, a reaction to the 90-92 point may be expected. Repeating our advice of last week, we warn against buying until the reaction has taken place. Swing students can ride through the reaction, but traders should accept the several points profit on recent mendations, notably Harvester and Chrysler, which show some severs points each...
...Miss Farnam encloses with her letter a newspaper clipping stating that so little beer has been consumed in the Harvard dining halls that the gross profit derived from the sale of it is only a little over half the amount required to pay for the license. On an average, only one bottle of beer per man per three-week period has been ordered in the halls.--Editor...
...Social Frontier," he explains, "will advocate the raising of American life from the level of the profit system, individualism and vested class interests to the plane of social motivation, collectivism and classlessness...
Procter & Gamble may be many years the junior of Colgate but its profits are bigger, more consistent. Its peak year, curiously, was 1931 when it rolled up a profit of $22,600,000. Even last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...