Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student of Napoleon's campaigns that he is supposed to remember "every order as they were given, day by day, during the Empire" (the words are attributed to Foch). But Gamelin is considerable of a realist and it is quite possible that in the next war, he would profit by the mistakes of the last...
...fancied insurance problems. Each of them paid $1 for the interview. Some 8,000 became clients-i. e., had their policies cashed or converted and cheaper insurance substituted, sometimes with a spot of recovered cash to boot. For these services, Siegel exacts an average fee of $25. Non-profit consumer groups also engaged in insurance counsel say the average case can be handled for $3. Out of his whopping annual take, some $250,000, Siegel paid a radio bill last year of $100,000 for time on ten local and four New England stations...
Since July 1937 U. S. chains have short-waved programs in six languages to nations overseas. They have done so only for good will-particularly the good will of the State Department-not for profit, because the Federal Communications Commission granted only "experimental licenses" for such broadcasts (meaning that the programs could not be sold to commercial sponsors). Last week the Commission issued regulations which put a new complexion on U. S. shortwaving...
...Judging from the record, the [steel] industry has become allergic to profits. To look at its performance you would think it had anticipated those who want the profit system abolished, and for all practical purposes had established itself as the first great industry devoted to the idea of production...
...honking along in full-feathered flight. On the New York Curb Exchange, its stock (which early last year could have been bought at 50^) sold last week for $5.25. For the first time in its history the slow-growing goose began to grow feathers for stockholders' pillows: a profit of $3,000 in March, $2,600 in April...