Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away with the situation which arise and which will continue to arise, under existing conditions. So long as an unlimited number of laundry and pressing agencies are permitted to exist, there is bound to be solicitation, whether underhand or otherwise, and competition which precludes the possibility of profit on the part of these numerous agencies. Two courses are open the laundry and pressing business should be University-controlled through the Employment Office, or open solicitation should be allowed...
...devoted to military history (the Fascist version of Italy's part in the War): map reading, the organization and duties of the various branches of the service. No schoolboy may be promoted to a higher class or receive a degree unless he passes his military science "with profit." At 18 a schoolboy becomes part of the Fascist militia and is given training in specialized branches of the service...
...Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad's great circle route to Vladivostok. But its war value...
...current liabilities and nearly $100,000,000 in current assets, about one-half of which were cash & securities. Mr. Chrysler looked upon the price of his stock and saw that it had declined from a February high of $60 per share to around $30. Yet he had made a profit of $8,000,000 in the first six-month, which was twice what he made in the 1933 half. His sales were running 100% ahead of the year before. Thereupon, Mr. Chrysler, who is by no means ignorant of the fact that a good market for his stock...
When a Freshman arrives at Harvard, he is apt to be rather puzzled at the status which the Cooperative Society occupies in college life. To find a store which does not include profit-making in its motives except for its customers and which includes members of the Faculty and undergraduates on its board of directors is an unusual experiment. And yet again this year the Coop announces a profit of $56,000 which it will distribute to those persons who have used their services...