Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...England, where a profit is still not without honor, year-end forecasts by bank presidents and industrialists receive-and often merit-sober public consideration. In the U. S. the contrary is so true that last week hardly a bigwig bothered to sound off as 1939 arrived. The few that did-Tom Girdler, Alvan Macauley, J. J. Pelley, Jacob Ruppert-were qualifiedly optimistic. Only Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. pulled out all the stops, issued an "inspirational" statement on practically every phase of U. S. life. Said he, among other things: "Crime must be reduced...
...young man who believes in Horace Greeley's famed maxim is balding Banker Guy C. Myers of No. 35 Wall Street. For several years Mr. Myers has been going West with profit. Last week he turned a neat profit in Nebraska...
Last year the banks unloaded about 40,000 of the U. S. Rubber shares at $50 a share. Yet at year's end Ohio Goodyear still owed $752,000 and was worried over the tax on the profit made by selling at $50 a share the U. S. Rubber stock which had cost $18. Last week both headaches were solved at a public auction of the debentures...
Great Western is situated in Pittsburg, Calif., 50 miles northeast of San Francisco. In 1920, when the four-year-old company was ailing, Banker-Chairman Mortimer Fleishhacker installed able, ambitious Jacob F. C. Hagens as president. The company promptly made its first profit-$100,000; last year it cleared...