Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pride & Profit...
...which your article referred, such a disparaging remark will have a very important bearing on the future of my business, which, in spite of all your correspondent may have led you to believe, is considered by me to be an honorable business from which I take both pride and profit...
...Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit. On top of this sudden conversion to political atheism, Rudolph loses faith in Mary and there is nothing left but despair. When the sun comes up there are two corpses in Mayerling, some 35 elsewhere in Vienna and adequate official explanations for everything...
...third week of January, when cocoa reached 13? per Ib. for the first time since 1928, nervous brokers advised their clients that the time for profit-taking had come. "With the chance that titanic forces are cannily at play in the bull-ring," said I. Witkin & Co.'s colorful market letter, "we prefer for the time being to be on the sidelines or in the grandstand. Possibly to help a huge and financially powerful long-interest, if our conjectures be correct, to unload upon a heterogeneous and unorganized investing public and manufacturers at large is to court an attack...
...services for a profit; and these functions are the major categories of opportunity for college graduates. Research, finance, personnel administration and management are activities necessary for the operation of these primary functions. There are, then, these distinct groups of opportunity in business and industry for college men, each as significantly different from the others as it is from law, medicine, or teaching. And they are functions common to all forms of business and industry...