Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell for less than $375. Said he: "It is the solution of the nation's troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners. ... I don't care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started...
...Film Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1936 with the object of showing to the University all the American and European films of interest since the beginning of the movie industry. At present it is headed by T. Edward Ross '38, and is sponsored by distinguished Faculty members, the Fogg Museum, and others...
...Union owns a $500,000 non-profit vacation resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Hills. Some 25,000 members are enrolled in union classes, learning everything from trade union tactics to ballroom dancing. The Union goes in for sports, clubs, pageants, dramatics, music-and politics. For the Garment Workers Union is one of the twin pillars of the American Labor Party, which holds the balance of power in New York State politics. Labor Party chairman is Luigi Antonini, president of the world's biggest local, Garment Workers No. 89 with 42,000 members...
...buys a pair of lisle or rayon stockings instead of silk she deprives Japan of exactly 10?, and probably is not aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced that they favor boycotting goods of Japanese manufacture...
...Certainly there seems to be little common understanding of the function and management of money in our personal and social living, of taxation, of profit as a factor in business and as a motive of industrial enterprise, and of the relations between government and individual initiative in promoting production and employment," he said...