Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London and New York bankers did not lend that money for the humanitarian purpose of saving Germany," said he. "They lent as ordinary business and banking transactions, to make a profit. They borrowed a good deal of it from France at a low rate of interest and lent at a high rate. There is no reason now why France should assume a part of these burdens...
Bitterly he flayed "this cynical, scoffing self-willed generation that bows down before the idol of profit and production, that knows not God and prides itself in this ignorance; . . . its penitentiaries, enlarged and yet overcrowded; juvenile crime . . . divorce, with states like Nevada and Arkansas feverishly competing in the effort to make divorce easier, quicker and cheaper; apostles of free love and loose moral leaders . . . quicksand of companionate marriage, childless families . . . collapse of family felicity; our business world with its fraud and connivance . . . professional impurity . . . commercialized vice...
...these gentlemen have that sense of patriotism which outruns immediate profit, and a desire to see the country recover, they will close up these transactions and desist from their manipulations. The confidence imposed upon me by law as a public official does not permit me to expose their names to the public. Otherwise I would gladly...
...charges made last week were that Sonora Products Corp. (then Acoustic Products Co.) arranged to buy 200,000 shares of De Forest Radio Co. stock at 50? a share, but that the defendants took the stock themselves, sold it at big profits without telling shareholders or other directors. On an investment of $25,000 Mr. Biddle is supposed to have made a profit of $100,000. Irving Trust also claims that general mismanagement cost Sonora Products Corp. $3,000,000 in two years, that now creditors can get but 25? on the dollar...
...their small Oklahoma City office, completed a deal whereby M-K-T will get the road and equipment (three locomotives, 12 box cars, two section cars, two cabooses) for about $2,300,000. This, estimated 83-year-old President Achenbach, compares to a cost of $2,100,000, a profit of about $2,000 a mile...