Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course several qualifying factors must be mentioned before concluding that complete success has been realized. It is by no means abnormal for a Yardling to profit from his icy plunge into the November Hour Exams and improve his marks by February, reading class or no reading class. And the number of men who were involved was so small that any sweeping generalizations would be unsafe. But none the less, the Psycho-Educational Clinic has been encouraged this year to conduct larger, general reading examinations in an attempt to secure more comprehensive results; and although the records may not be made...
...Last week Coca-Cola reported 1938 net profit...
...money; Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, preparing for their labors on Gunga Din, could barely be persuaded to leave their marathon backgammon game long enough to write a script. The script turned out brilliantly. Olivier's work as Heathcliff is a speaking tribute to the efficacy of the profit motive...
More than almost any other, the business of making locomotives is either a feast or a famine. Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit of $1,019,983, first since 1930. Last year Lima got along on beans-it made ten locomotives and lost $687,035. This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place...
...implement concerns. That year it had assets of $46,000,000, sales of $27,400,000. In 1932 sales collapsed to $4,400,000 and the deficit amounted to $4,164,974.61. But by thriftily plowing back its earnings, Oliver finally emerged from debt last October after a 1937 profit of $2,182,763.36 (it fell...