Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of the Review in its first year; and therefore it will suffice in this article to state that the Review was published as part of a business service, later known as the Harvard Economic Service, which became self-supporting in its second year and subsequently showed a modest profit which was accumulated as a reserve to insure continuance of the enterprise...
Being fair to the university, its critics must grant that it is not run for profit and that it uses for educational purposes all of its income. The late President Eliot once said that a college was not properly administered if it did not report an annual treasury deficit. Perhaps times have changed in this respect since Harvard university established its great school of business administration, which teaches sound business principles and practice, especially how to avoid using red ink in making an annual balancesheet...
...many industries sales are accurate forecasters of profits. This is not so true of chain stores where the margin of profit varies. Yet last week indications were that 1929 will prove to have been a record year for many a chain system. The first 20 chains to report showed an increase in sales amounting to 18% for the year, 11% for December...
...Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back. From then on White Rock's sales bubbled upward. In 1906 the present company bought Welsh out for about $2,000,000; in 1929 its net profit...
...relation of secondary schools to institutions of higher learning the lecture continues. "Secondary schools are handicapped, then, because of the expectation that they shall prepare for higher education of academic kinds more students than are fit to profit by it. They handicap themselves by inculcating in their students a conviction that much of their curriculum is of value only as a preparation for further study in the remote future, that man never is, but always (is) to be blest...