Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rindge will have its own meters and will pay its portion of the bill to Harvard without any profit on the part of the University...
...showed 205 favored persons and firms who had been allowed to buy 250,000 shares of the company's stock at $12 a share just before it was offered to the public at $27. People on the list had an immediate chance for a $15 a share profit, later for a $137 profit. But they had to promise not to sell for two and a half years without first offering it to the company. If they kept the stock, as many doubtless did rather than incur Samuel Insull's displeasure, they now are of course on the long...
...dealers organized a sort of picture-a-month club to rent good pictures to subscribers with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...
However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief...
...fast. The price rose from $2 to $3.50, and soon after reporters and cameramen had publicized them, the last had been snapped up at $5. From the office of the impoverished firm of Krenn & Dato a secretary telephoned hastily for the list of buyers, promised the vultures a good profit on the resale...