Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This dinner at the Mayflower Hotel was the top in more respects than price and profit. Franklin Roosevelt was its speaker. At its snowy tables were arrayed the immaculate bosoms of Cabinet members, of all loyal Senators and party wheel-horses who had not been sent into the field, of lobbyists to whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter...
Said Capitalist Davies on his return to Moscow: "The most striking impression I gathered from my trip was the universal use of the profit motive throughout Soviet industry as an incentive to workmen. I visited factories where the 'Stakhanovites' were receiving twice and thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than...
...that doing anything is commerce. Thus, cows ranging back and forth over State lines because their owners have neglected to fence them in are engaged in commerce (Thornton v. U. S.). . . . However, Snatch is technical. He says that commerce has to do with trade, business, commercial enterprise, adventure involving profit or loss...
...confused with Chicago's big Crane Co. is prosperous little Trane Co. of La Crosse, Wis. Both sell comfort to the U. S. public, but there the parallel ends. Crane last week reported 1936 profits of $5,600,000 on sales of $78,000,000. Trane was proud to show earnings of $325,000 last year because it topped its previous record (1930) by more than 50%. And that profit was made on sales of only...
Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression. In 1929, the company's best year, net profit from 321 stores was $3,097,000. For the drug year ending last September sales were more than $61,000,000, with a net profit...