Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies engaged in foreign commerce, this arrangement meant calm seas ahead. But to lines in domestic coastwise trade it presaged disaster. Those that had mail subsidies lost them, got nothing in return. For those operating between Atlantic and Pacific ports, Panama Canal tolls ate heartily into whatever profit remained. For such companies the choice has been: 1) to transfer ships to foreign trade to be eligible for subsidies, or 2) to founder...
...Cracked down on 13 major oil companies and eleven of their officers. Accused of illegally fixing the margin of profit for independent jobbers in the "second Madison oil case." these defendants fortnight ago pleaded nolo contendere (TIME, June 6). Last week. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone of Madison, Wis. fined them a total of $360,000 plus $25,000 costs...
...become more so to the linguistic student who picks up the grammer easily from the reading and presumably concentrators would be in this group. But at the same time it has become more difficult for those who need a good solid grammatical foundation before they can read with profit...
...only three stockholders-Henry Ford, his son Edsel and Edsel's wife, Eleanor. Because it has no other stockholders to coddle, the company does not publish an income statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss...
...forceful head of the newly-formed National Progressives of America proposed to meet this problem by a policy of "collective individualism" which would harness the profit motive for social ends. He denied any similarity between his system and that of the "collective capitalism" defined as Fascism by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...