Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common bond of being ex-presidents and Mr. Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold next month to satisfy Fox creditors...
...which had belonged to Trader Goldman by announcing themselves as specialists in the three stocks which had been all his. No stock exchange rule did they violate, for any member may open a "book"' as a specialist in any stock at any time. Usage and small possibilities of profit ordinarily keep members from "horning in" on each other's business. But last week bitter brokers were glad to throw their business to the new specialists. Mr. Goldman ruefully admitted that he had lost a substantial part of his business...
...Economically, the land north of the Arctic circle has been of vast importance for the last 200 years. Such commodities as furs, fish, whale oil, seal oil, eiderdown, and ivory have been exported for our use and profit. For example, the Hudson Bay Company, one of the oldest trading concerns in the world, has taken out millions of dollars in the fur trade. The cryolite mines in southern Greenland are the world's only source of that ore, which is used in the manufacture of aluminum. It is hard to estimate the value of the whale oil that has been...
...course will also include a discussion of the value of the profit motive in the regulation of our national economic life; the place of gold and the gold standard in national and international stability; and the agricultural problems...
Ninth, confiscation of the gold profit arising out of the revaluation of the dollar so that the Treasury of the United States may acquire the excess from the Federal Reserve Banks by using the taxing power. This excess gold or gold profit would be used by the Federal Government as a basis for the issuance of currency notes with which to help retire public debt or as a means of credit expansion for the benefit of American industry requiring capital loans...