Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas if he has no income apart from his business (like myself) a bookseller must live and make a profit, this end may be relegated to a minor position. A bookseller who is at the same time a book-lover and a bookman, may achieve a dual end; to enjoy his work and his association with books, and to impart some of his enthusiasm and what knowledge he may have to the younger or the less experienced. These objects if pursued make this the most fascinating of professions...
...course, part of the romance of bookselling is the monetary aspect. While it is a mistake to think that booksellers always make a prodigeous profit, fortune may be lurking around who-knows-what corner. I have said that a copy of Incondita would fetch $25,000. I might find one on a bookstall or in an attic next week, or nex year. Or if not that volume, something else of great value...
...does it have any borrowed money on which to pay interest." The reason the corporation has no outstanding bonds is because it received directly from the Treasury $12,000,000 in cash. A private company would have to pay interest on this capital before it could show a profit...
...decisions he makes bind him. He cannot force his own opinions upon anybody. A university is the last place in the world for a dictator. Learning is always republican. The President must not need to see a house built before he can comprehend the plan of it. He can profit by a wide intercourse with all sorts of men, and by every real discussion on education, legislation, and sociology." So spoke President Eliot in his inaugural address when speaking of the importance of the presidency of Harvard...
...movements. Bull Cutten had his first experience with regulation in 1926. He had bought tremendous amounts of wheat and felt that "events were justifying the judgment of conditions I had formed months before when I had taken my position. By every right of commerce I was entitled to a profit on my transaction for the risk I had taken." The Board of Trade, however, forced him to sell some of his holdings because the Grain Futures Administration had said they were too large. At the news "Cutten is unloading," the price, of course, broke sharply. Last week Speculator Cutten observed...