Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although 18 years a motor maker, Sir William has plowed all his profits back into his business. He announced last week that this year, for the first time, he will take a modest dividend of ?250,000, will plow in the remaining ?1.100,000 profit for the year...
...pitchmen, tent show performers depend upon its fat pages for information regarding bookings, gossip, scandal, news. To such folk, for instance, the headline NO JOINT. NO TAKE INDOOR CIRCUS NETS 20 G'S means that an indoor circus which operated without the use of shady concessions made a profit...
Officials of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc., coast-to-coast U. S. aviation system operating air schools and taxis in 40 cities, doubted that Luft Hansa could find much profit in its half-a-loaf policy. Curtiss-Wright rates, reckoned as low as any in the U. S., range from 30? to $1.60 per mile, depending upon the type of ship used. The return trip must be paid for at the same rate...
...lobby's funds. He said the Union Carbide contribution had been made for Muscle Shoals maps and data-a statement Mr. Haggerson denied. He insisted that the deposit of the money in a stock account instead of in a bank was only "a business convenience." His $526 profit he claimed was really unpaid interest on sums he had already advanced...
...Canada during the next few decades will be so overwhelmingly great that these countries offer the most attractive field for investment. There is room for immense expansion and the desire for it. Wealth is the main objective, the pace will be hot, and the profit high. ¶ I think it is quite wrong to believe that the currency chaos of the last ten years will now be replaced by a long period of calm stability similar to that of the 19th Century. ... On the basis of this view I would invest a large part of any fund in the strongest...