Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue, husband of Jessie (5 & 10?) Woolworth, and Mrs. Horace Dodge billman. The Thomas N. McCarters arrived. The Emil J. Stehlis gave a dinner for their daughter...
...Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price of 11? a package would give the dealers 1.3/10? profit. A. & P. was making only 3/10? a pack...
With the resolution outlawing personal profit from patients for medical inventions finally adopted, the Corporation is well rid of an ugly situation which has hung its head for the last year. By conclusively declaring that no members of the Medical School or the School of Public Health should take out for his own profit a patent upon any invention that affects the health of the public, the University has wisely refused to assume any responsibility for the approaching law-suit in which Drinker will attempt to save his name if not his money...
...meet individual needs. With certain qualifications, I would have little sympathy or enthusiasm for tutorial work if it were not possessed of great flexibility that made it possible for a tutor to guide the individual student in the work he (the student) needed most, from which he could most profit, and to which he could bring real curiosity, and, further, to guide only those students who do need and want such guidance. A stereotyped and formal conference week after week is deadly. Some students are, shall I say, too able, too intellectually independent, to need tutorial attention. Others...
...young wife in child-birth but kept his faith in tobacco-planting. He and Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled for her native life, she dreaded going back to Virginia. But civilization and London fogs had given...