Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways for the beet sugar industry. It left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while U. S. consumers were paying some...
...more in behalf of the working people than his tracts ever accomplished. All of which was due to the fact that Joseph Patterson was editor & publisher of the newspaper with the largest circulation in the land, the tabloid New York Daily News, which last year earned $3,300,000 profit...
Harvard University has taken over the University Film Foundation, a non-profit organization producing pictures of scientific, artistic and educational value, and will continue the work along more restricted lines, it was announced yesterday by Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Director of the new organization...
...Last year it was cut to $7,875,000. President Fred Wesley Sargent told his stock-holders last week that if North Western's earnings continued at the rate enjoyed for the first quarter the road would finish this year with a $2,000,000 profit...
When the Japanese proclaim that they are assuming the responsibility of maintaining peace in the Far East, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that they mean not merely peace with honor, but also peace with profit. They are taking up the well-known and slightly nauseating White Man's Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...