Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used for pipe tobacco and cigaret blending. Wall Street. eyeing the silent war between the big makers of 15? cigarets and the makers of 10? brands, felt sure that the 15-centers were boosting the price (TIME, Sept. 19); high tobacco prices would cut deeply into the slim profit margins on which the 10-centers work but would hardly be felt by the leading 15? companies. Kentuckians did not care much, for they will jingle in their pockets some $25,000,000 more than they did last year, will go to the Derby anyway...
...made this comparatively good showing is because ... it has been working on a well devised plan of budgeting operations to keep expenses closely under control. In preparing budgets for the present fiscal year we looked upon 1932 as normal. ... We have done so with the idea of making a profit on the volume secured last year...
...last, and in many ways the most admirable of his annual reports to the Overseers, President Lowell has inserted a financial item, which in the mind of the undergraduate will overshadow all the comments on educational trends. That item reveals indirectly that the House Dining Halls made a large profit last year and that a portion of it, --$40,000.,--was used to finance the measure which gave relief jobs to needy undergraduates. The news will come as a distinct surprise to men who have shared two apparently fallacious beliefs which the administration has made no effort to correct: that...
...will feel that its moves have been perfectly reasonable, and that students have small ground for complaint. The surplus was large, they will grant, but last year was the first that saw the House Plan in full operation. There was nothing upon which to base estimates, and when the profit is considered in terms of single meals, the margin was remarkably small. Moreover, when the surplus became definitely obvious, reductions in rates were effected which would prevent any more than a nominal profit. They will argue, finally, that the money had been put to a use which few would term...
...undergraduate interest, but keeping it foremost. But in this, as in many another instance, the undergraduate looks not to the fundamental necessity for the measures, but to the manner in which they have been executed. He sees that the reduction in food prices was delayed until a huge profit had accumulated, even though he had felt assured that the dining halls were a non-profit organization; he sees that it was he who supported the relief measure for which the university tacitly received applause. He has not been informed as to the reasons for these steps, and he selects...