Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
...What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under...
...chairman of Marshall Field & Co.; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Educator (University of Chicago, 1926-35), business analyst, author of books on accounting and administration, Chairman McKinsey entered Marshall Field in October 1935, after the company had lost $12,000,000 in five years. He reorganized ruthlessly, reported net profit for 1935 of $199,000. In the first nine months of this year, net profit...
...Friday the Harvard Athletic Association announced a loss of $785 on Harvard athletics for the academic year ended last June 30th. This deficit came after two profit-making years, each accruing at least...
Richard Whittemore does a good job as Tommy Harrow, the lean, nonchalant hero. Miriam Clark, borrowed from the Erskine School, puts considerable charm into the role of the candid huntress. L. John Profit, whom the club calls its veteran, does an excellent portrayal of the traditional canny Scott. Peggy Eastall is more than satisfactory as the efficient manager of the concern: the one who comes closest to getting the bills paid. The acting is simplified, since the characters are really types. Even so, William Judd and Harry Buckman are a little stiff in their roles of brokers; and Robert Markewich...