Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts--and into the bargain they are quite easily explicable. In this present imperfect world nations have yet found no agreement upon practical methods of disarming. So long as they refuse to, the easiest way for them to stay armed is to permit a full exploitation of private profit system in the manufacture of armaments. By this device nations avoid the expense and annoyance of maintaining plants and inventories of armaments throughout a period of twenty years when perhaps they may never be needed at all; the private armorer meanwhile is able to keep his plants oiled and humming...
...Wray, and Stuart Erwin as the American reporter is adequate. Henry B. Walthall, who has appeared much too rarely since "The Birth of a nation" makes the gentile, idealistic Madero a vivid character. The photography and musical accompaniment are excellent, but the film is unnecessarily long and would profit by judicious cutting...
...blonde with nice legs are, according to the bill boards, and added attraction. These incurable followers of Penner will not be daunted by his appearance in the cinema, but skeptics as to his merit will ponder whether to classify him as moron or an imbecile. Mr. Penner does not profit by his venture in Hollywood. All in the all the afternoon was pretty much of a loss, for it was not warm enough outside for the cooling system of the theatre to be appreciated...
...Soviet government of Russia expressed its official uninterest in paying the debts of the Czarist regime, sixteen billion gold francs, drained slowly from the savings of the French people, were loaned to Russia, secured by bonds that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap. Most of the profit in the sixteen billion found its way back to Schneider-Creusot and is today in their factories and their bank accounts...
Through these industrial and financial interlockings Vickers-Armstrongs conducts its affairs. They are profitable affairs for as the agreement with the Sun Insurance indicates, a profit of some $4,500,000 a year is considered so unsatisfactory that insurance must be carried against it. And England's aristocracy takes pleasure in clipping its coupons. Among the more prominent shareholders, in 1932, of Vickers or other concerns associated with the production of materials of war were; Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberiain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Austen Chamberiain, M. P., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...