Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City. Excerpts: "There is more opportunity in the world today than ever. . . . Fortunes change hands every seven years. Who gets them? Somebody else. . . . A clearheaded, hard-working young man never admits a closed frontier. . . . If he can give better service than a corporation, he succeeds the corporation. . . . Intelligent men profit by history. The intelligent young man reads back, then looks forward."* Mercury to the Masses. As leading entrepreneur of the Depression, Cord finds himself at 39 one of the most meteoric figures
...company could never repay its debt to Founder Schwab. Thereupon the stockholders took a vote of confidence in priceless Mr. Schwab, only five dissenting. Rail orders were up, current operations were 52% of capacity against an average for the industry of 47%, said. President Grace. "We earned a profit on the preferred in March," he added. Bull Girdler. Republic Steel's President Tom M. Girdler also had a bullish report when he went before his stockholders in Jersey City. His company was almost out of the red, operating at 55% of capacity against an average of only 36.9% last...
...were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a little judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut butter and hot chocolate could quickly be provided by the dexterous house wife for a hilarious group of eight Sophomores, all for the price of a "Georgian Special." Net profit, $4.00. A little systematic study...
...Deal has made many promises. Until last week three important questions- What will it cost? How will it be paid for? What will be the profit? -have been answered only by more or less careful estimates, more or less outrageous guesses. Last week the U. S. got its first noteworthy answers in hard facts. As yet the answers were like the returns at 8 p.m. on the night of a national election, incomplete and inconclusive. But they were facts, not guesses...
...Franklin Manufacturing Co. has never shared in the spectacular profits of the automobile industry. Its stock is very closely held. Franklin's peak in late years was reached in 1925 when a $2,000,000 profit was reported. In 1929 it earned only $1,100,000. Since then it has reported deficits. Immediate cause for last week's bankruptcy was $2,088,000 in bank loans long overdue. The receiver talked of selling the company to another motormaker, but Herbert Henry Franklin's friends hoped against hope that direct Government loans to industry might yet save...