Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help to the student of harmony toward gaining an insight into the subject, an insight which cannot come through the working out of harmony exercises alone. The study of analysis should begin with elementary works in harmony, but advanced students, including professional musicians (provided they have studied harmony), would profit much by following through Professor Piston's analysis...
...were mere tommyrot among the full grown men at Harvard. Although residents of Revere and Malden have been sure that the Minnesota Ford V-8 seen on the parkways and sidestreets of those towns belonged to the Indiana sheriff-slipper, Apted was inclined to chalk such accounts up to profit and loss, and took the opportunity to tell of his ideas for the country's need of a national unified police force. "If this country had a unified police system, men like Dillinger would never exist," the famous detective is quoted as saying...
...built a public market on upper Broadway but it was not a financial success. The Astor policy with real estate had always been to buy, hold for a rise and sell at a profit but put up no improvements. Vincent Astor, during the booming '20s, sold a great deal of property. On onetime Astor land now stands Manhattan's Paramount Building, its Longacre Building, half of its Empire State Building and many another. But Vincent Astor broke family tradition by improving Astor property. He put up $10,000,000 worth of buildings, modernized many old ones, became proud...
Last week General Electric's President Gerard Swope, author of many an industrial plan for social betterment, announced a prospective profit-sharing program for General Electric's 50,000 workers. For the past 17 years ending in 1932, 30,000 workers have received a 5% bonus. Hereafter each & every General Electric employe will share up to 12½% of the company's earnings available for common stock after 8% of its book value is deducted. Before the plan can become effective G. E. must earn 83? a share on common stock. Last year it earned...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is "one of the three or four men of real stature in the Cabinet." and fast-ripening Presidential timber. Observer thinks Rexford Guy Tugwell "a genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there...