Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manager Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street had small doubt last week. When the Athletics played the Cardinals at Fort Myers, Fla., Connie Mack said to Street: "I hope we have the pleasure of meeting again next October." Said Gabby Street: "I'm looking forward to the pleasure and the profit, too." Privately he added: "Brooklyn has possibilities of being the most dangerous club in the league. Even the Reds and Phillies shape up as teams that can go places. In the end it will be stamina and steadiness that will win. That's where I think we have...
Certainly "Lilies of the Field" is vastly more successful than the Idler's venture last year with the banal pretentiousness of Phillip Barry's "Hotel Universe." Tonight's performance, which will be the last, will doubtless profit from the experience of the first, and deserves an increased attendance. There will be dancing after the performance...
...publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays for articles. Advertising is expected to meet expenses, perhaps show a profit...
...Steel himself, charges it to the customer and evens up his books. If it goes down and the customer decides to cover, he merely buys 100 shares which, in effect, he gives to the broker to close out the transaction. The difference between selling and buying prices is his profit or loss...
...blast furnaces, a powder for tennis courts, stone for dams, breakwaters and railroad embankments. Yet because the building industry was deflated long before the current Depression, Indiana Limestone has had difficulty in making both ends meet. In its 1928 fiscal year it made $430,000. In 1929 its profit dwindled to $10,000. Last year its net loss...