Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most spectacular of the announcements was that Louis Adler, onetime dressmaker, now independent real estate operator and builder, had succeeded in assembling an entire square block in the Wall Street district. Although 23 minutes after the last plot had been bought Mr. Adler could have sold at a profit, he is going ahead with plans for a 105-story office building...
...foremost economists protesting against the Hawley-Smoot Bill. Like most such protests, this petition will probably be pigeonholed while the Senator from Massachusetts, with an eye to a future election, pleads for a raise of the tariff on textiles or the Senator from Idaho thinks that his constituents would profit by further government protection of the wool market...
...Conductor Arturo Toscanini. There went 114 musicians, 38 wives, nine children, two dogs, 250 trunks. Ten years ago the now defunct New York Symphony went on what was the first European tour by a U. S. orchestra, made the mistake of not practicing on shipboard. Philharmonic players intended to profit by that experience, practice daily that no brass-players may be handicapped by sore lips at the opening concert. In Paris, on May 3, the Orchestra was to play first, go thence to Zurich, Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, London. Already houses...
...Electric Bond & Share Co. to turn its books over to Commission accountants. What manner of figures the Commission wants was revealed last week when one of their accountants testified. Apart from well known facts on Bond & Share's size, he put great emphasis on the company's profits from fees. In 1927, he stated, Bond & Share received $9,373,172 for supervision, engineering, construction and financing, a profit of 105.4% over the actual cost of these services...
...would leave the Fox Companies well supplied with, funds. Furthermore the bankers (who included both the Fox and the anti-Fox factions in the late war) were to receive only 300,000 shares of three-year warrants of Film A at $35 a share-a banking profit notably smaller than the commissions formerly proposed by either Halsey, Stuart or the Bancamerica-Blair. Dillon, Read & Co., Lehman Bros, syndicate...