Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head with a blackjack when my head is turned is something I don't derive profit from. It is something I can't get over easily...
...compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over...
...liquor, shoes, automobiles, etc.) but left heavy industry (steel, coal, railroads, etc.) in the lurch, no genuine U. S. prosperity has resulted. Last week one grandiose cure-all and one specific remedy were expounded before a Senate sub-committee considering incentive taxation as a spur to industrial adoption of profit-sharing plans (TIME...
...mystery was in the crude drug department, which Dr. Coster ran with the help of Assistant Treasurer George E. Dietrich. Each year the department reported a nice inventory profit from its operations abroad and this profit was added to the inventories and accounts receivable on the books. Accountants Price, Waterhouse & Co. certified that the inventories had been "certified ... by responsible officials" without certifying the inventories themselves...
...Groves was not slow in making his presence felt. He acquired a handful of broken-down investment trusts, put them together as Equity Corp. and sold them to Rockefeller Son-in-Law David M. Milton at a profit of $750,000, according...