Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger that the ordinary, or below average student will be neglected; the opposite danger has been and is the earmark of American education. But the idle, or uninterested student will suffer if the recommendations are carried out. The slow, hard-working student, and the quick, expansive student will profit. The idle and the uninterested students are unproductive anyway; therefore the neglect will raise the standards, and do no great harm to them or to anyone else...
...Last week it was estimated that the Soviet Government had made close to $1,000,000 profit in a month by covering the short wheat sales which precipitated Secretary of Agriculture Hyde's violent but short-lived anti-Red campaign...
...Five years imprisonment at hard labor and fines of $400 to $1,000 for "persons who, for their own or others' profit, circulate false news or by other fraudulent means create fictitious increases in the value of stocks of companies they represent." One to Three years imprisonment at hard labor and fines of $400 to $1,000 for company officials who contract loans with their own companies...
...Gradually grave irregularities were disclosed. By the end of last week Assistant Attorney-General Washburn had made at least three disclosures of so grave a nature as to justify talk of warrants for arrest, indictments. Metal & Mining Shares had falsified an earnings report by which it showed $324,000 profit for the first half of the year. The list of investments which it reported was likewise falsified. The high-grade bluechips said to constitute the $6,000,000 portfolio had been syphoned out, many securities of speculative Bob mining promotions sucked in. And in the company's safe reposed...
...government bonds is C. F. Childs & Co. which in 1927 did a business larger than the total bond turnover on the Stock Exchange. Last week developments involving this firm gave rise to the saying that Mr. Childs is the first man to have sold his own name short with profit...