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Word: profitability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would remind the President that one of the major causes of that Revolution was taxation which interfered with trade. Patrick Henry thought George III might profit by the example of history. So might Roosevelt II. "If this be treason," etc. WILLIAM SILLIMAN ROGERS Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Shot in Democracy | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...people responsible for a situation of this kind are the merchants and jobbers in America who prefer to buy things manufactured abroad at cheaper prices in their greed for profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laemmle Asks for Buy American Drive; Signs His Appeal "Patriotically Yours" | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

Versatile Miss Dorothy Sands has been chosen for the title role of Alcestis. The role of Admetus, her husband, will be played by Michael Linenthal, 37. John Profit appears as Hercules, the Greek counterpart of a modern gridiron hero...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POET'S THEATRE FILLS 'ALCESTIS' FINAL CAST | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...present outlook is very poor." With this gloomy statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Quarter (Cont'd) | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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