Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons. . . . But to employ such material in publicly attacking a person's past life when he is engaged in high public duties and virtually powerless to defend himself, is unfair, unsportsmanlike and detrimental to the public interest. . . . The only purpose of the publication seems to be to provide profit to persons of unsavory reputation through satisfying morbid and idle curiosity...
...World's largest maker of playing cards. Last year its profit...
...suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony'' and "millionaires have not suffered from the Depression." She added: "The estate is easily worth...
...district, quietly bought up the property around Safe Harbor, gained control of Consolidated Co. Most important item for any hydro-electric development is a good market for its product. Expensive to build, big power dams must be able to sell electricity readily or their overhead charges eat up all profit. Safe Harbor dam was not begun until its sponsors foresaw the electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York to Washington. Last week Aldred & Co. were able to announce the largest single power contract in U. S. history when Safe Harbor got an order from Pennsylvania to supply current...
Surrounded by a capitalist world deep in Depression, the printing and bookbinding plants which Elbert Hubbard founded on a profit-sharing basis in 1895 reported they were working on two shifts 24 hours a day. His son, Elbert Hubbard II, now head of the Roycrofters in East Aurora, N. Y., made the surprising announcement. He admitted business had not been quite up to last year's standard until a recent flood of rush orders promised continuous work for several months for the 175 Roycrofters. Socialistic, outdoor man like his father, Brother Hubbard saw the end of Depression, fell into...