Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hedging is a market process of equalizing profit-&-loss. A grain dealer buys 100 bu. of spot wheat at 800 per bu., simultaneously sells it for future delivery two months hence, say, at 860. The 60 differential theoretically covers the handling and carrying charge during that period. If at delivery time spot wheat has fallen to 75¢, he is guarded against loss by his contract. Likewise if wheat rose in the interval he would not thereby profit on his contract...
Versatile, he was not only a political bigwig but a high financier, president of Fitzsimmons Oil & Leasing Co. On any sale of Fitzsimmons stock he received a 25% commission. He made of his affiliations with public officials and aspirants opportunities to talk oil, to make 25%- personal-profit sales. The Fitzsimmons property became known as "the Anti-Saloon Oil Well." Last week this admixture of Drywork and Mammonwork led him, Rev. Arthur J. Finch, to resign his superintendency in disgrace. Moreover, it caused the Colorado A. S. L. to decide no successor would be appointed, to admit temporary collapse...
...comic magazine, a literary magazine, annuals. Last year at Dartmouth he helped to found The Five Arts (TIME, May 19). Last week young Chrysler gave the Press careful first facts about his new Cheshire House, Inc.,*publishers of fine books in $10 bindings. Cheshire House will not operate for profit. Once a month, from its offices on the 57th floor of Chrysler's father's Manhattan skyscraper (his father's office is on the 72nd floor), it will issue a newly splendrous classic, later perhaps a few unquestionable contemporaries. Its organization consists of best obtainable craftsmen...
...market last week by Jules Hauvette Michelin when he announced that Michelin Tire Co., potent in Europe, will withdraw from the U. S. Said he: "Price is now decidedly the most important factor in closing any sale. The quality seems to have been lost sight of. . There is no profit for the manufacturer and no profit for the retailer either...
...this matter is that, it is a defined undergraduate opinion. It affords a means of ascertaining just how well the various instructors accomplish their aims as teachers, raison d'etre is to remove to some extent the grave misfortune of becoming snared in some course that has no profit, an extremely expensive experience in the four short years of college. Naturally imperfect and with many short comings as a result of the personal element of the opinions, nevertheless it can help to avoid the tragedy of wasted time...