Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
...fees which fell far short of paying its upkeep. Other rich men formed partnerships with their wives and children thus splitting their income several ways so as to escape high surtaxes. A retired Army officer who has a large income from securities which he hopes to sell at big profit, took out Canadian citizenship papers and transferred his securities to four corporations in the Bahamas in order to escape the income and capital gains tax. Some of such schemes were illegal, some might be technically legal. All were immoral. Franklin Roosevelt was going to bring them to the attention...
...Also, the field cannot be recommended to those who are not certain they like mathematics. However, for those who do like the subject, and have not experienced difficulty with the theory of mathematics they have met in school and Freshman year, it is an opportunity for much pleasure and profit...
...study law in his brother's office. Admitted to the bar in 1892, he stepped in to reorganize the town's electric light company which had failed. He pooled it with nearby local companies, established a central power plant. Resulting Berkshire Power Co. was sold at a profit to Hartford Electric Light Co. During 1901-10 Lawyer Roraback lobbied for the New Haven Railroad at Hartford, earned $5,000 a session, learned legislative wiles so well that in 1905 he gained for his own account a hydro-electric charter to harness the Rocky River. Twelve years later...
Last year gross sales of Lipton's tea in the U. S. were $6,496,437, on which the U. S. company made $466,406. Profits had been doubled since 1934. For the first four months of 1937 Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. shows a net profit of $321,598, which the company deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly...