Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Profits. "It is essential in our economy that private funds must be put to work and all of us recognize that such funds are entitled to a fair profit...
...Arlie V. Bock also praised the poll. His statement reads: "There is no doubt in my mind that many men both undergraduate and graduate students of the University, would profit by participation in one or more types of extra-curricular activity. Such activities may form a substantial part of the whole educational procedure, since they help to fit men to live in the world...
...have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree in 1935. Scooping smelt from streams has never concerned him as much as scooping up tourists. Wryly he says: "It has not yet been determined whether smelt in the Great Lakes...
Before the floods last month, Los Angeles' non-profit-making Zoopark, owned by the California Zoological Society, had managed to keep itself going. But it had never built a reserve fund from admission charges, sale of animals, concessions and, most important, renting animal actors to films. Among Zoopark's characters: Jackie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's trademark lion; Nissa and Sweetheart, leopards which stalked through Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn; Anna May, veteran jungle-film elephant; Lady, the whooping crane which danced with Shirley Temple in Captain January...
Scores: Tries by; Kidder, Profit (2), Desmond, Scott, Strong, Constable. Conversions: Constable...