Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speculative. Dr. Schacht proposes to give it almost the stability of a bond by substituting for 8% plus a flat 12%. In lean years this 12% dividend would be maintained by drawing on the Reichsbank's large reserve, which up to now has absorbed 20% per annum of the profits. Under the Schacht Solution only 10% instead of 20% would go into the reserve fund, and after deducting 12% for the guaranteed stockholder's dividend almost the whole remaining net profit would be turned over to the German Treasury. Estimators figured, last week, that this would increase the revenue drawn...
...have asked for another six weeks session after the termination of the present one. Many undergraduates have also asked for special periods of instruction in the exercises. Although it has been impossible to comply with this wish, plans are being made to accommodate all upper classmen who desire to profit by them next year...
Once there were two Scotchmen, or rather a Scotchman and a Scotch woman: now there is George C. MacKinnon. George has a nerve of iron when the returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous...
Detroit Edison Co.: Net 1929 profit $13,146,063 as against...
Western Union Telegraph Co. (Handles more than 80% °f landline telegraph business in the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton considers British wire and wireless merger no menace; differs with Owen D. Young. Best profit year was 1925: $16,186,000 net): Net 1929 profit, $15,490,573 as against...