Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be limited to $10,000, bonuses will be banned unless approved by stockholders, and directors may be ousted at any time by stockholders' vote. Thus from the stage will pass famed United Aircraft & Transport Corp. which last year grossed $26,567,514 from operations, made a net profit of $1,623,022. Of all money spent by the U. S. Government on domestic aviation last year, it got one dollar out of every three. For flying more than half the domestic airmail it received one-third of all mail payments ($5,313, 000). and its manufacturing subsidiaries...
Behind such trifles was masked the significance of the Black committee's resumption of operations. Its investigation of airmail contracts had made a headline stir which the U. S. would not soon forget. But unfinished was its more important inquiry into what profit the U. S. Government got from selling $559,000,000 worth of ships for $40,000,000, from lending $145,000,000 to shipping operators at infinitesimal rates of interest, from paying $140,000,000 in ocean mail subsidies during the last five years...
...most afternoons he is hustling downtown, first to the barber who for 23 years has combed his hair and shaved him, then to the office. He has seen the music-publishing business in three distinct phases: 1) when songs sold for a dime and made little profit; 2) when the price reached 30? and people gladly paid it; 3) when radio came along, cut the sale of a hit from 2,000,000 to 200,000 copies, the life of a song from a year to two months. Berlin, the businessman, has a log kept to show the number...
...Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), which has $1,900,000,000 in assets, reported a profit amounting to precisely 1?-per share on its 25,000,000 outstanding shares. Last week Stanoco reported 1933 earnings of 97? a share. Exclusive of a $24,900,000 profit on balances in foreign countries resulting from dollar devaluation, Stanoco's earnings were $25,084,000-an increase of no less than...
...lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were sequestered but they were managed by his mother and were bought back through dummies for the account of his two sons. During this turbulent period the sequestered properties were arming the revolutionists to the De Wendel profit, while the properties beyond the wabbling frontiers of the Republic were arming the monarchists, trying to regain power, and their allies--also to the De Wendel profit...