Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extend the life of the $2,000,000,000 Exchange Stabilization Fund, created from the paper profit of the original devaluation...
After liquidating much that was unprofitable, Judge Shearn tried to squeeze more profit out of paying properties, to turn a profit with those that were doubtful. But the troubles that beset all publishers in 1938 nearly ruined Hearst. Newsprint went from $42.50 to $50 a ton, upping the Hearstpapers' bill by $5,000,000. Advertising revenue dropped 25%, a staggering $10,000,000 a year. Circulation fell off. In June 1938 Hearst Consolidated passed its dividend. In July the first Hearst subregency fell...
...question is obviously one of finances. Since it is not operated for a profit, the Clinic has no funds for expansion; because the University budget has been reduced in all departments, no aid can be expected from that source; and the dream of an all-wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity...
...Goodrich celebrated its 70th birthday last week by announcing a 1938 net of $2,240,119 after a 1937 loss of $878,580. Surpassing it in size are three younger competitors-Firestone Tire & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, now the industry's biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales of $165,000,000), was founded in Akron in 1898 by the Seiberling family, has no connection with Inventor Goodyear save its name, chosen to do him honor...
...Upperclassmen," wrote President Lowell eight years ago, "are doing work of a university grade, but it is too often distinct and separate from other things and other men." The should improve themselves by "contact with fellows interested not only in the same subject but in different ones. The should profit by deepening and broadening their associations." In the past few months a practical method of achieving this aim has been quietly developed in Lowell House, a method which deserves attention not only because of the ends in view but also because of the means themselves...