Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Derived from funds in its possession not allocated to other purposes, and consisting in part of a profit on the 1940 Red Book, $1000 has been set aside as an interest bearing savings account...
...market with a product "unsurpassable because of a crushing superiority of means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return of one twentieth of one percent on a two billion dollar investment, Hollywood was concerned, but mildly...
...much real estate. In his 47 years in the cigar store business Mr. Schulte has developed an uncontrollable passion for corner sites. In 1925 he paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop on it to sell cigarets at a pipsqueak profit per package. Mr. Schulte's great attachment to real estate has not been entirely irrational. Once he bought the Aeolian Hall, then on 42nd Street, and sold it two weeks later for $1,000,000 profit...
...profit will go for future activities of the Union Committee. Plans for the future program are still in the formative stage, but activities will be largely the same as last year. A special Christmas Dinner is in prospect...
Last year a profit of $75 was realized from the sale of 100 tickets. Some of this was used to arrange special programs and the remainder given to the Spring Jubilee committee