Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1930, by Joseph R. Swan, then president of Guaranty Co. Mr. Swan's letter, introduced to prove that C. & O. really acquired no option but immediate control of C. & E. I., was an interesting sidelight on the dummy deal. Wrote he: "I very much need some profit for the Guaranty Co. in this quarter, and on that account wondered whether or not it would be possible for you to arrange that we should receive the commission in connection with the purchase by you for, I think, the Chesapeake & Ohio, of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois shares...
...much as the tutorial work of men in Plan B would be so much lightened, their course requirement would be raised to 16 courses in addition to English A. Provision also is made for students to transfer from Plan B to A if he "later demonstrates his ability to profit by the more intensive from of tutorial' work, and desires to make such a transference...
Upon the Journal which Dr. Fishbein edits the A. M. A. depends for practically every dollar of its operating expenses. The Journal last year, Dr. Fishbein last week reported, earned $1,547,218. Operating expenses: $909,418. Net profit: $637,800. Cost of running the A. M. A.: $411,029. Other expenses, other income balanced to make a net income to the A. M. A. of $113,112 for last year. Adding this to accumulations of past years made a total reserve of $2,260,392 and total assets (including property...
...flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which so long held back the railroads-the attitude of the U. S. Post Office Department. Last week Denver was again jubilant, for it finally succeeded in tunneling...
Reminded of the large sums which U. S. investment trusts spend annually in their research departments, Author Reis believes non-profit organizations can operate more cheaply; colleges and universities will help a non-profit project; Investors' Research would not worry about day to day market fluctuations, merely report whether securities were safe investments. Analogous to Investors' Research is the 64-year-old British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. "But that's a little organization for big investors," says Author Reis. "What we need is a big organization for little investors...