Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote tousled Manhattan Columnist Heywood Broun: "The United States Chamber of Commerce might well profit by a little lecture from Miss Carole Lombard." Miss Lombard's little lecture: "I gave the Federal Government 65% of my wages last year, and I was glad to do it, too. . . . Income tax money all goes into improvement and protection of the country. . . . I really think I got my money's worth...
Students will usher food through every step from field to table, learn to sweep floors, write advertisements, calculate profit & loss. They will study also the science of food: what makes bread rise, what makes beer. When they go to school each morning, students will first take a shower, then don white uniforms. The food they carve, bake and cook will be dished up to them and their teachers for lunch in the cafeteria...
...thing well. And by all means realize that academic life does not require twelve hours each day or that nothing but study is proper. Look around at the score of athletics open to Freshmen, for the College will make you exercise three times a week. Examine the profit number of extra-curricular activities, all of which are worthwhile and a few of which undoubtedly suit your tastes and abilities. If you consider all these things, Freshmen, we are sure that you will pass beneath the gates of Harvard ready--as the words engraven on one read--". . . to grow in wisdom...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...record, Scott officials talk lovingly of the quality of their tissue. Last week Scott talk turned from tissue to issue as the company registered with SEC plans for a $3,000,000 flotation of stock for plant expansion. Simultaneously, genial President Thomas Bayard McCabe reported a half-year net profit of $743,627.72, best six months in Scott's history...