Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Treasury's figures, the Stockmarket's rise and fall in 1929 produced speculative profits of $2,239,763,714 and losses of $661,733,366. In the "millionaire" class, stockmarket winners took a net profit of $92,000,000, losers a net loss of $48,000,000. Total net winnings and losings were heaviest in the $25,000-per-year income class...
...execution of its financing program gave the Treasury a tidy little profit. The matured notes bore 3½% interest. They were retired with a bond issue at 3⅜% and (figuratively) short-term securities at 2% and 1½%. This represented a reduction from 3.75% to 3.72% in the interest rate on the gross public debt. Small in percentage, it meant an actual annual saving of $15,700,000 in the Government's interest payments...
...Certainly I'm worth $10,000,000," he cried. "I own everything in Zion City-the factories, the land. I made $100,000 last year out of my Zion fig bars alone. I have 26 departments in my department store. Any manager who doesn't make a profit I fire. I am 61 and in the prime of condition. I do the work of twelve men. If you stripped me of all my money tomorrow, I'd be a millionaire again within five years...
...tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit if our local papers decided to forsake complacency for a little, first-class, cut-throat competition...
Last week reports continued to appear, some happily good, some fair, others shockingly bad. A close escape from a loss was Sentry Safety Control (cinema equipment) with a net profit of $14. Typical earnings included...