Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murphy and a minority backing promptly showed their mettle by operating at a profit of $2,000 during the next six months. Murphy presently became president, directed the company so successfully that by October 1937 Guaranty had paid two preferred dividends of 15? and 10? a share, aggregating approximately $750,000. More than 3,000 letters testified to the gratitude of stockholders. One woman had her roof fixed with the $2.50 she received, took her dishpan back to the kitchen at last. One oldster of 94 years found 80? reason enough to thank God and Murphy...
...grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather...
...soon show a profit as a Field investment...
...Airline business has more than quadrupled since 1929. but no airline in the U. S. has yet made a substantial profit (United Air Lines made only $367,000 last year...
Holding that "the law will not permit an officer of a corporation to make a private profit for himself in the discharge of his official duties," Judge St. Sure ordered Banker Fleishhacker to give an accounting to the Anglo stockholders. Heavy-jowled Herbert Fleishhacker retorted: "We'll appeal and win." His lawyer, quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, sniffed: "I view the matter as a rather interesting development in an episode that is far from ended...