Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the French Ministry of Air extended its aid to French citizens and flying clubs who buy domestic models designed less than six years ago and built since Jan. 1, 1930, provided the planes be operated not for profit...
...sell more books at the lower price, to provide established booksellers with competitive merchandise in the current war between them and the drug-and cigar-store book counters. Authors will be paid royalty at the same rate, not at the same amount per book. Wherefore, an author will profit no more from the sale of 10,000 books next fall than he did from the sale of 5,000 last spring...
...Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task of exploiting Cuba, frankly admitting that his papers will profit thereby...
...phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...members of this year's Council, besides exhibiting naivety the equal of its predecessors' a year ago, are even more to be blamed, for they have failed to profit from experience. Already rumors are current of activities taking advantage of the Student Council's lack of foresight and judgment. Is it too early to disillusion those who may run next year's elections and suggest that space for signatures be included on the Student Council ballots in 1931, in accordance with the practice in force in all other class and college elections...