Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live long enough to master the method and secret of Mrs. Boole. That craft has been good journalistic policy and may be again. Your attitude toward Mrs. Boole's policies and projects will always give her an advantage over you; for she is not working for her own profit or advantage...
...Profit During the afternoon Nominee Thomas climbed up on a platform. He spoke easily, rapidly, with few gestures and no political blood & thunder. His speech not only inaugurated his campaign but gave his party its 1932 slogan: ''Repeal Unemployment." Avoiding abstract theory he hammered home the necessity for relief, not as the two old parties proposed but by means of the Socialist formula of "production for public use rather than for private profit. " Excerpts...
...Here is where our Socialist plan begins . . . We intend to subsidize consumption instead of letting the subsidies all go to producers seeking profit. . . . The Federal Government should grant emergency subsidies to unemployed families on a weekly basis. . . . We must begin to think in terms of ten billions. ... If necessary, I should favor a big issue of Government money to the unemployed for relief to be retired by stamps on its circulation. . . . The next great Socialist principle is the five-day week. . . . Another emergency measure is the taking over of unused land and factories so the unemployed can produce for their...
...plus losses have resulted in reducing Steel's surplus $73,000,000 in a year. "It is apparent." he said, "that we are at the mercy of business just like any other corporation." From operations alone. Steel lost $3,362,000 in the quarter against a $13,817,000 profit a year...
...Broadway. In a unanimous decision they voted to omit the preferred dividend for the first time since 1913 although some people had hoped for a small payment. After charges, Bethlehem's second quarter resulted in a $4,671,000 loss against a $1,452,000 profit in the second quarter of 1931. President Eugene Grace said that improved sentiment had not yet been reflected in the steel business...