Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This conclusion," continued the Court, "is unaffected by the fact that the petitioner does not sell news and does not operate for profit, or that technically the title to the news remains in the petitioner during interstate transmission...
...once we were selling eggs. The natives complained and we stopped. I have even gone so far as to ask my friends to purchase their toothbrushes and shotgun shells locally. There has been an unfriendly feeling by the farmers toward us for years. We never ran the farm for profit -just for fun. Now there will be no more hunts. My decision is unequivocal. . . ." Next day, the Ligonier Board of Trade circulated a petition pledging farmers to permit Rolling Rock foxhunters to ride over their land, got all but six of the 240 farmers to sign it. Said the Board...
...Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, was tripped up by her 10-foot train at the age of 14 and her coronet fell off at the door of Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
...month. TWA will have the first of its DC-3's and the three transcontinental airlines will again be on a par in equipment. Last week, therefore, they sensibly agreed to compromise the rate war, profit by each other's experiments. United and American agreed to lower their rates half as far as did TWA last year. TWA will now raise its rates to that level. In addition, the three lines agreed to set up the first rate structure in air transport history with three distinct classes of travel corresponding to railroad sleepers, chair-cars and day-coaches...
...stockholders (42,700); 4) to Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck & Co. (9.2%). Inaugurated in 1916 by the late great Julius Rosenwald, the Fund has paid out $45,204,000 to a total of 65,000 employes who paid in only...