Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second quarter. The half year earnings of $15,019404 compared with $84,122,176 last year. For the second quarter of 1932 Chrysler Corp. last week reported earnings of $1,186,053 against a $2,066,485 loss in the preceding quarter, $3,231,963 profits in 1931's second quarter. The half year results were a $880,432 loss in 1932 against a $2,252,036 profit in 1931's first six months...
...Avery last week: "The economic principles of selling by mail are as sound and acceptable today as when this business was started 60 years ago." Last week the company reported a second quarter deficit of $726,002 against a $2,541,733 deficit in the preceding quarter, $407,706 profit in 1931's second quarter. Half year results were a $3,267,735 loss in 1932 against a $1,375,968 deficit in the same period of 1931. Japan's Copper. Next to coal, copper is Japan's most important mineral. Sales at home practically halted...
...embalmed the first thought of Jan Bat'a was to retrench. The Bat'a newspaper announced that the company had passed its dividend, that for the first time working partners will fail to receive their 10% return on the stock they hold. Under the Bat'a profit sharing system, half of each worker's profits has been automatically invested for him in Bat'a stock, thus making him a working partner...
...Last week Liberty announced with pride a net profit of $103,222 for the past five months, first profit ever shown by the magazine into which Publishers McCormick & Patterson are supposed to have sunk $12,000,000 before Bernarr Macfadden acquired it in April...
...waiting for the new world's biggest theatre to open, the old world's biggest theatre, the Roxy cinema palace in Manhattan, last week closed for three weeks. Lavish stage shows had failed to attract the weekly $75,000 necessary for profit. When it reopens, less lavishly, its 5,920 seats will be outnumbered by International Music Hall's 6,000-odd. It may forfeit the name of Roxy to another of the Rockefeller Center theatres...