Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio had ruined the sale of sheet music, once the major source of popular music profit. But A. S. C. A. & P. drove through...
...Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under Gene Buck...
...businessmen of our country let me say that our Government and the masses of the people themselves resent unthinking statements or subtle suggestions that the profit motive in American life has been or is to be abolished...
Last week with Hearn's once more thronged with customers, Messrs. Levin and Kaplan began their third year in control by announcing a unique merchandising policy. Starting about Sept. 1 Hearn's will operate for one year without profit. Owner-Manager Levin, who holds all the stock, will take no salary, no dividends. Net income, if any, will be turned back into lower prices. "We are able to do this," said Mr. Levin, "because, fortunately, we have no stockholders, bondholders or bankers in this business. . . . There isn't a soul to drain off dividends. . . . We believe our plan will help...
...corn crop. Under seal on Iowa farms are 100,000,000 bu. against which AAA made loans at 45¢ a bu. Farmers may regain title to this corn by paying off the loans. With corn selling currently in Iowa at 65¢, they can realize a 20¢ per bu. profit, or a total...