Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General, four Senators, four Representatives. In March the Commission held a short series of hearings at which it went straight to the economics of war. Last week it returned to the task of devising ways & means of conducting the next armed struggle more efficiently, more economically, without profit to anyone...
Picking its students carefully by means of questionnaires and interviews as well as scholastic credits, Antioch aims to enroll only those who will profit by its system. Next autumn it will take in 45 fulltime students, applicants too young to go into outside work. These will take special courses, pay $425 for their tuition. A & B students pay but $300. Because the workers earn part of their way, their average expenses are not much more than $500. Minimum expenses for a fulltime student will be about...
...Yale authorities have acted wisely. Numbers who obtained no benefit from classical studies will now turn their energies in another direction, while the rest will profit by the weeding out of the classes...
...valued the R. F. & P. at $29.400.000 for 1922, $30,100,000 for 1923. Section 15a allowed the road to earn $3,570,000 for those two years. But its books showed a profit of $5,353,393.68 or an excess of $1,783,393.68 above the legal rate of 6%. The Commission ordered it to turn back one-half of that amount?...
...M.K.T. Shrewd Mr. Loree made $144,000 on his M.K.T. stock. In 1928 the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated Mr. Loree's trade, questioned his ethics. Last week this annual report of Kansas City Southern revealed that Mr. Loree last year paid over to the road his $144,000 profit. He said his action was merely to "settle any further controversy...