Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roads to Disaster." AAA's misfortunes have already revived a host of rival farm panaceas. Most popular is the long talked of "domestic allotment" plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would...
...well known associate of Samuel Morse in building the new telegraph lines which were beginning to mushroom up throughout the country. He made his first large profit of $6000 on the New York-Albany line. In 1885 Ezra and other owners of the Middle Western lines formed the Western Union Telegraph Company, on which company he served twenty years as a director, and of which for more than fifteen years he was the largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished...
...Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into line with other steel prices, which it left unchanged. Other companies quickly followed suit. Said Iron Age: "While the reductions tend to restrict the possibilities for profit in steel making, this is more theoretical than actual, as there has been virtually no business in these lines for some months. . . ." Once steel's No. 1 customer, U. S. railroads have bought only 12,296,600 tons since 1933, compared to 27,200,000 in the 1927-32 period. Only...
...Center is a non-profit organization established last spring by the Cambridge Social Union with the assistance of the five-year old Boston Center for Adult Education, which has become one of the most successful educational centers in Boston, having an enrollment of over 3000 persons...
...running, albeit irregularly. Most remarkable testimony to Chinese ingenuity was that the 680-mile run from Canton to Hankow has been shortened to 36 hours instead of the old 45-hour schedule. Moreover, in spite of war, and because of heavy war supply shipment, the line made money; net profit last fiscal year...