Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buying grain before the next twelve months are out. But for the present Dictator Stalin, his authority absolute, can fling a total of perhaps 45,000,000 bushels where it will cause the most excitement. If he succeeds in breaking the world grain market to new lows, Russia will profit doubly because: I) her trade agents are already speculating ("selling short") to profit from the decline; 2) when she begins to buy grain she will get it cheaper than even her present "dumping" price. For the first time since Kings & Emperors played at finance with whole nations which they considered...
...Canada's Dr. Walter Riddell suggested darkly that farmers in America, equipped with tractors and loans at the bank, may be worse off than Europe's simple peasantry, not thus supplied. The overseas farmer he said, "being entirely on a price basis, cannot live unless he sells at a profit." Bankrupt, he loses his farm through foreclosure, and this fate, warned Dr. Riddell, befell "some 2,000.000 U. S. farmers after the slump...
While no price was revealed, M-K President Frank Preston Parish said it was at "a substantial profit." Yet what was more important was that the sale assures "carrying out of all the engineering plans as originally laid...
...expected Aviation Corp. to show a profit for the first half of this year. The only question was, "how great will be the loss?" Last week appeared the answer: $3,236,317.95; loss for 1929 (Avco was organized March...
...reminded of that Hispanic musical durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch...