Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intoxicating" beverage have been only too prominent in the official mind; and since those bogies have been combined with a state law forbidding such sale to legal minors, it is safe to say that the administration will allow less vulnerable and consequently less scrupulous merchants on the Square to profit, without competition, from the Undergraduate Thirst...
...persons and corporations selling securities. Of course, the Federal Government cannot and should not take any action which might be construed as approving or guaranteeing that newly issued securities are sound in the sense that their value will be maintained or that the properties which they represent will earn profit. There is, however, an obligation upon us to insist that every issue of new securities to be sold in interstate commerce shall be accompanied by full publicity and information, and that no essentially important element attending the issue shall be concealed from the buying public. This proposal adds...
...current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton market fails to rise, John Planter stands to lose nothing on his free option...
...stock subscription plan-thereby saving the employes from loss; 49,178 shares were purchased last year in the open market at an average price of $8.43 a share. Thus did the company not only support the market for its stock but also placed itself in position to make a profit of $126,000 if & when Mr. Avery exercises his option. Moreover on the day when Mr. Avery became chairman of Montgomery Ward the stock of the company was sold at $10.25 or 75? under the option granted him, thus any other stockholder stood to make more on appreciation...
...might not prove in the end tedious. Dr. Goebbels slapped his thigh. "You know me!" he cried. "I am a sworn enemy of every sort of boredom! . . . Best of all, our propaganda is not going to cost the German people anything. Instead my Ministry cannot fail to show a profit- the radio advertising, you know...