Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right, but certainly it is not all wrong," he remarked diplomatically. But: "Today no business is willing to spend a dollar except for immediate requirements. Those of us in the steel business cannot blame our customers, for we feel the same way ourselves." His reasons: 1) fear for the profit system, 2) the Securities Act, 3) labor unrest, and 4) "I want to know what the Government is going to do with my dollar...
...most pointed of all: "We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative and the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon...
...work for some 150,000 people. In the eyes of the Department of Justice, a good many U. S. citizens and all farmers, the leading packers are always suspect. Yet they handle hundreds of millions of pounds of a highly perishable commodity with model efficiency, no waste and a profit, if they are lucky, of a penny or two per dollar of sales...
...associate director in Amos Parish & Co., director of Hahn Department Stores. He promptly bought out Corticelli, one of Belding's few spool silk competitors, concentrated production in the efficient Putnam, Conn, plants, scrapped the unprofitable fabric and hosiery manufacturing division, wound up last year with a $500,000 profit. He continued to make money this year, paid off a bond issue. Last week the Belding Heminway directors declared a 50? dividend - their first in six years...
...commended under the caption "Go." while the other thirty are condemned in varying degrees of severity under the captions "Caution" and "Stop." The comment refers to the instructors freely by name, and it is suggested that these hard-working and well-meaning individuals may, like the Freshmen, derive profit from its perusal...