Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passion for Peace was aroused when he found cause to suspect that the Spanish-American War was promoted for private profit (see p. 63). His scientific, nature-loving mind was shocked by the realization that "war takes the best men that nations produce. It kills them off and leaves the inferior ones to perpetuate the race." Familiar throughout the land became the tall, fine old figure, black-hatted and garbed in loose-fitting clothes, of Jordan the Peace-Maker, chief director (1910-14) of the World Peace Foundation, onetime (1915) president of the World's Peace Congress, vice president...
...enough to recover more than fractionally the shrinkage of 1930. Total exports in March 1931 were $237,000,000 against $369,000,000 in March 1930; imports, $209,000,000 against $300,000,000. Since the U. S. exports about 10% of its goods, and the margin of profit in many industries is 10%, the effect on many a balance sheet is obvious...
Fortunately, neither one of these books is a Ludwigogram, so it is quite possible to read either with some profit Professor Herford, true to the traditions of scholarship, bases his work chiefly on Professor de Selincourt's edition of "The Prelude". His criticism of Wordsworth as a poet rests on the changes that the poet made at various times on his text. He willingly admits that the efforts of Professors Harper and Legouis in exposing Wordsworth's relations with Annette make it necessary for a new "explanation." Keenly aware of the sensational tendencies of his own century, Professor Herford makes...
...veritable stink-pots. The Supreme Court's mandate spurred city officials to press on, regardless of local complaints, with a plan for 15 new incinerators to cost $17,375,000. During the War, New York considered plans whereby garbage could be reduced to grease and sold at a profit of $3,000,000 per year but the slump in grease prices ended that idea. Within the year a Boston man nibbled at New York's garbage output with a proposition to dry it out for fertilizer, but nothing came of that. Deep-sea dumping costs the city...
...Last week Roy Lewis Gray was still at Fort Madison, still a clothing merchant. He said: "There has been no profit for me in being chosen as the average U. S. man. I haven't made a thing out of it. ... I never said I didn't read the foreign news. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Most of the time...