Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend games. Vice President Garner became a constant patron and fan of Fellow-Texan Baugh. Washingtonians enthusiastically pack-jammed Griffith Stadium every Sunday the Redskins were at home. Owner Marshall's $85,000 deficit turned into a prospective $20,000 profit...
...liberal press was, of course, warmest in its condemnation of Section XII. Said the Nation: "The Herald Tribune has got away with the publication of paid propaganda at a nice profit. The money that swelled its advertising revenue came out of the hide of an oppressed nation...." To which New Republic added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral...
Miami has also witnessed judicious pruning. Two months ago it had three dailies. John S. Knight of the Akron Beacon-Journal bought Frank B. Shutts's Herald, then decided there was room for only the Herald and James M. Cox's News to operate at a profit under present rising costs. Fortnight ago, like a move in a game of Monopoly, Mr. Knight gave Moses L. Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Massillon, Ohio Independent as part-payment for Mr. Annenberg's three-year-old tabloid Miami Tribune. Mr. Knight killed the growing Tribune, moved...
...vanity of vanities, this business of teaching young men the fruit of older wisdom? Is there no profit of all a man's labor which he taketh under the sun? Hardly. Rather is there great profit, perhaps not to the individual who puts in the effort and makes the sacrifices. The profit accrues to those who follow in his train, who have heard his voice, shared his enthusiasm, and will come in time to pass on to other rising generations his message...
...there is profit to the individual, too. At the end of one path where one must stop, there branch out more paths to follow, more new trails to be explored, where again is a chance to lead the way for others. All is not vanity and vexation of spirit. Rather is there work for all to do, rewards for doing...