Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least part of this sum might be profitably used to defray the expenses of maintaining and operating the university's athletic equipment. At present this item is met almost entirely out of charges to students using the facilities. Locker fees, squash and tennis court charges, and the swimming pool charge are the main sources of this income. The amount spent in this way during the past year was$89,589.43, or about $3,000 less than the surplus plied up in a year which was scarcely expected to show any profit...
...York City where police listed 30,297 destitute families, Banker Seward Prosser raised the first $1,000,000 of the $6,000,000 which his Emergency Employment Committee is soliciting from Big Businessmen to keep 13.500 at work through the winter on non-profit jobs...
...what their condition is at the moment, for that is always ascertainable, but what it will be later in the day when they make their semiweekly reports to the Federal Reserve. Late transactions can turn proper reserves into surpluses or deficiencies. A surplus signifies a multiplied loss of profit owing to the fact that a dollar in reserve means many dollars in banking power; a deficit means the bank must pay 2% above the regular Federal Reserve rediscount rate. Often, suddenly afraid of late deposits which mean a larger reserve will be needed, banks call loans late Tuesday and Friday...
With this cash the modernization was begun. Last year was still too early to show results, and a deficit of $950,000 against 1928's profit of $33,000 was reported. But in 1927 the company had lost $6,218,000. For the first quarter of this year (no statements since then) PRC made $650,000, and while of course summer profits will not be so much, the company's inventory now is relatively low, its production growing at a rate greater than the industry's average...
...strictly not in accord with your manifestation of being liberal. A college, liberal in the finer sense, should include and encourage as many diversified subjects as its students will support. That militarism is not academic is true but neither is publishing a daily news paper for amusement and financial profit. If you are to be consistent in your ideals, then spend your spare time in Widener Library and the Museums...