Word: profit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Commissioner Payne concluded by demanding, before Sept. 13, a full WLW balance sheet, profit and loss statement, dividend statement, figures on broadcasting rates...
...announced that Pratt Hospital would "make it possible for patients needing diagnosis, patients from any corner of New England and from any economic group to get the latest medical advice and for the country doctor to profit from the knowledge and experience of specialists." The doctors will take turns studying at the Pratt Hospital. Mr. Bingham will pay their expenses in Boston, arrange for "exchange doctors" to substitute for them in their home towns. Maine doctors in batches of six are already taking advantage of this unique medical dispensation. In addition, all New England doctors will have the opportunity...
...owns. Last year when Texas production seemed excessive the Texas Railroad Commission ordered a reduction in the allowable for the Van Field, compelling Pure Oil to buy 11,000,000 barrels from other producers-twice as much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit for 1936, $7,658,000 was nearly $500,000 less than in 1935. This year, though Texas has raised its proration. Pure Oil needs all the new production it can get to meet the greatly increased demand...
...candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued the practice on a far larger scale. By controlling the fighter, promoting the fight and speculating in his own tickets at his Broadway ticket agency, Jacobs has now perfected a unique system for profiting...
...made the following claims: Snellenburg's had an agreement with its landlord. Board of City Trusts, whereby, due to Depression-cut income, it could get its $682,000-per-year rent reduced; in 1933. Snellenburg's eight partners (including six named Snellenburg) withdrew $425,000 "of the profits . . . so they would get the $100,000 [rent] reduction." That agreement provided for repayment should Snellenburg's subsequently show a profit, but was subsequently granted again as an out-&-out abatement...