Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer a solution to their hunger for additional radio time. The short-wave bands open to present day receivers are relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston university professors, as well as chamber music and the complete public program of this year...
...give but he won loud applause when he declared: "Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe which impends? Yes, I am confident we can," and again when he cried: "Let no man or woman forget that there is no profit in war." Loud bravos and applause followed his conclusion. Four days after this thrilling start, the delegates managed to recover their composure, organize their Conference, hear Secretary of State Hull propound his metaphoric "Pillars of Peace...
...testing products and types of illustration and copy. He created a department to study the costs of business getting, cut them down to about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...
...Robinson-Patman Act. After the turn of the year a new subsidiary called U. S. Tire Dealers Mutual Co. will purchase tires from the parent company on an equal footing with big buyers like motor-makers and mail-order houses. Mutual will handle all distribution, passing on the profits, if any, to its dealers. Thus while the dealers will still have to pay more for their tires than volume customers, the difference will be exactly equal to the extra cost of selling in small quantities. U. S. Rubber will then look solely to a manufacturing profit...
Granted, many people are prone to leave all the work in a course until the last few days, but presumably if they are of age and mentality sufficient unto the college course they will be able to get through by themselves. If so, well and good, and they will profit far more from the work of this cramming than from having a painless filling up on the south side of the Avenue. If they can't well and good. Out they go. As is, they might get their diplomas from the people that do teach them, if the process...