Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling 35,000 copies a day, big delivery trucks were rolling in and out of the churchyard, and Allen Lane had become the most spectacular success in British publishing history. The price of Penguin books: 6d (12?) a copy; the profit on each...
Irving Chase '39 heads the Dance Committee, assisted by S. Roger Sheppard '41, Llwellyn Vorley '41, L. John Profit Sp., and Frank F. White '89, Gardner Stratton '39 has been appointed Head Usher. The committee has announced that the dance will be limited to 200 couples at $4.50 each, while no more than 75 stage at $2.25 per head will be admitted...
...began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...
Hormel's new scheme, an adaptation of the profit-sharing idea, was worked out after Jay Hormel figured that 80% of his Austin plant's income went to employes in wages, 20% to stockholders in dividends. Although last year's $1,031,000 net income would have given workers no extra money under the plan, Packer Hormel thinks his program may inspire efficiencies, hence increase profits...
...mail, like grand opera, is something nobody expects to make a profit. But last week, with all the figures added up for the fiscal year ending last June 30, U. S. air mail revenue was reckoned at $15,301,210; contract pay to airlines at $14,564,256. Result: a $736,954 profit, first in U. S. air mail history...