Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...becoming evident now that the plan, successful though it has been, may stand in need of revision in a very short time. The funds to maintain the jobs were obtained, originally, from the profits of the Dining Halls; now that the rates have been reduced and food prices are rising, it is unlikely that any similarly adequate profit will again be realized. If the University, therefore, is to continue its policy of providing work for those men who need it, and if it is unable to turn up another source of income to support the present jobs, it will have...
Eight, clarification at an early date of the part the government is to play in the various code authorities to be set up under the NRA so that the relation of government to the profit-making system may clear up doubts as to future tax revenues...
...adoption. Moreover, it would raise the efficiency of students in both fields, and minimize the disadvantages incident to hurried language instruction in college, by shifting the onus to the preparatory schools where it properly belongs. The general cultural level of the liberal arts students, certainly susceptible of improvement, would profit, and the present premium on superficial language study decline, through the additional literature requirement. The principal objection to such a reform is that it would discourage a large group of applicants hitherto acceptable. But of every reform, of every advance in standards, this must be the implication...
...Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust), the bank's Chairman Arthur Reynolds, and Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews. Some of the participations were subdivided and Albert Henry Wiggin's family-owned Shermar Corp. got one-third of Chase Securities' allotment and in the end an $877,000 profit.* No cash was required, for the purchase price was paid as the stock was sold to the public. A separate syndicate was formed to make the market...
...Senators were sure were "wash" sales between the purchasing syndicate and the trading syndicate. His attorney urged that his client's memory was "not of the best." Mr. Cutten had directed the market operations, which sold all 1,130,000 shares in seven months at an average profit of nearly $11 a share, from Chicago. His cousin Ruloff Cutten, a floor member of E. F. Hutton & Co., had executed his orders. Whenever Mr. Cutten felt vague on a point he would refer to "my cousin Ruloff." Cousin Ruloff, a onetime actor whom Speculator Cutten took off the stage...