Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances against the black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house a profit of several million francs...
...working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
...time, Osgood is working out well and is showing plenty of fight, together with a fast "dive pass" to his inside backs. Behind him at stand-off, Harry Goff from Stanford has been turning in some fast, tricky running which has given him the edge so far over John Profit from Bermuda...
...Freshman class will parade its talent in an another "amateur" show tomorrow night unlike the one given last fall, prizes will be given from the remaining profit of the first Yardling dance. The performance is to be given in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock Sunday and will be judged by three officers of the University, among them Colonel Apted...
Opening the Government's case, Assistant U. S. Attorney Joseph W. Burns charged that the Ringlings grossed $53,400,000 from 1918 through 1932 when the circus was incorporated, paid out about $42,600,000, leaving a net profit of almost $10,800,000-an average annual $720,000 net which indicates that the Big Top was a much smaller Big Business than it was cracked up to be. But, said the Government, Ringling Lawyer John M. Kelley and the two onetime revenue agents who had helped him prepare income tax returns had made...