Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine...
...mind of Diarist Knickerbocker lurks no doubt. "With the ruble at its actual value," he wrote, "the Soviet Union is exporting, in all cases, at a large profit." The Red State, therefore, is not guilty of "dumping abroad," is guilty of inflating its own currency...
...service' [home study courses] of Columbia is for the most part not education. No single institution can educate 20,000 people by mail, or indeed, in any other way. The whole thing is a business . . . out of which Columbia has made in a single year a profit of $300,000. . . . Coumbia possesses not 48,000 students,* but on a generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses in] 'poultry-raising,' 'wrestling, judo and self-defense.' Is this not an appalling situation?" Harvard may some day change its motto from...
...Brown Brothers & Co., both of whom were previously directors, and Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. Mr. Pierce will become board chairman, First Vice President Moses Pendleton will remain in his same position as general manager. Mr. Pendleton has always made the important yarn division turn in a profit, has skillfully directed wool buying, knows much about manufacturing...
...four great sugar bowls of the world are the U. S., Cuba, Java, Europe. Last week representatives of these bowls were striving to halt the great stream of production which has filled their bowls to overflowing, has taken sweet profit out of the industry...