Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school age) they would need a larger school, ultimately to cost $65,000. A new plan they got for nothing, from Howe & Lescaze of New York and Philadelphia, who wished to design a modern, functional school-building. Within a few months the Hessian Hills parents, organized as a non-profit-making corporation, had enough money to begin the first unit of the school, a long, low, glass & concrete building with a flat roof upon which some day another section can be built. The parents got to work painting it, digging ditches, doing all the odd jobs that remained. Last fortnight...
...board. The new trust will invest a small portion of its funds in such U. S. companies doing a large Canadian business as General Motors, Eastman Kodak, National Dairy Products. But on its strictly Canadian commitments, if & when Canadian exchange recovers to par, the trust will make a profit of about 14%, the current discount of the Canadian dollar...
...Athletic Association reaches this large total of $900,000, several major items in this sum cannot be regarded as expenses. Many items of outgo are offset by much larger items on the side of income, and without such expenses there would be either no income or less profit. For guarantees to visiting teams we pay $284,008.98, but teams would not travel from New Haven or any other place to play for nothing, and without such games there would not be the several hundred thousand dollars of income which appears on our books. It cost our teams...
...celebrate on Dec. 25 the birth of their Lord Jesus Christ, many and many such pagan customs were transferred joyously to Christmastide. Today all good folk know that they should ponder reverently that mystery of 1936 years ago. But they may be pagan too, and are; to the profit of many and many a tradesman. Last week in Manhattan there was an exhibition of Christmas cards, at the Hotel New Weston, and some people observed that it was far more in the spirit of Rome than Bethlehem...
Such incidents unfortunately do not occur every day, nor every week. I have been unusually fortunate in that I have had one perhaps every year which netted me a profit of four figures for a trifling outlay...