Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate...
...Still more striking was the Dictator's word that management of factories a la Soviet by voting councils of the workers must in some degree give way to management by a manager with power to manage and responsibility to show a profit. Obviously this is "State Capitalism." The State being the owner for whom the manager must earn a profit...
Greater than usual must have been Producer Ziegfeld's sense of relief to know this show was "over." He has a profit sharing contract with William Randolph Hearst, owner of the Ziegfeld theatre. Publisher Kobler of the Mirror is supposed to have a "slice" of the production; so is Ticket Broker Joe Leblang's widow. Working for others, Ziggy felt he must be surer than ever of success. Accordingly he aimed pointblank at the middle-aged male who is the basic support of all girl shows, by having shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys...
...When I remember the very eminent men whom you have entertained and some of the splendid addresses you have listened to I only wish it was within my power to follow in their footsteps and say something which might be of profit to you to hear. But as nature has withheld this gift from me, I content myself with telling you how very glad I am to be here, how very pleased I am to have been entertained by you, and to thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...other S. O. S. was from Munson Steamship Lines (So vessels), intercoastal and Caribbean operator owned by Frank C. Munson & family. In 1925 Munson Lines bought four ships from the Board. It was supposed to have operated at a profit even in difficult 1930. Shipping men believed the Board would disregard the Munson plea...