Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrow terms, but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every one a chance to earn a living...
...definition Bernard Mannes Baruch is a "practical economist." His theory has been applied in the most hazardous of profit mediums-the stockmarket. But of Mr. Baruch, his old boss. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote last week: "His effectiveness as a practical economist is suggested by his own magnificent solvency." Last week before the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief Mr. Baruch had a lot to say about his country's solvency, which is currently not magnificent. He took two days to say it, and when he was through his testimony was hailed as the "heaviest...
Lacing the eastern seaboard like a big X, one of whose axes runs from Chicago to Miami and the other from New York to Houston, Tex., Eastern Air is the fourth biggest U. S. airline and the only major domestic one to make a sizable profit in 1937-$270,000 before income tax deductions. This makes it a choice business property, but North American Aviation found possession embarrassing because the Air Mail Act of 1934 forbids one company both to have airmail contracts and to manufacture airplanes. North American is the only U. S. concern to have gotten away with...
...reported profit of $3.10 on each copy of the $5.00 book, Steadman's supporters claimed that the selling price of the volume had been decided up on long before the costs of producing it had been known...
Charles W. Steadman 3L, editor of the Law School Year Book, who realized a personal profit of $1750 on the book's publication, yesterday declined to comment on the controversy, pending the investigation of a especially appointed faculty committee...