Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruction for one year and also provide the tutor and department with complete information on the basis of which the type of instruction which he is to receive during the remaining two years may be determined. After the sophomore year those who have given evidence of being able to profit most fully from regular tutorial instruction should be given weekly individual conferences. Those students who are to be provided with less intensive tutorial work should be assigned to tutors for general advice about their courses and about readings which will help them gain a better understanding of their chosen subject...
...merely on course grades or on the student's technical qualifications for honors, but on the question as to whether the student so far as can be determined by his tutor's opinion, by all the other available evidence, and by his own attitude and interests is able to profit from a type of work which places a large degree of responsibility upon the student himself. This is perhaps the most important and also the most difficult of all the problems involved, and upon its proper solution will depend the success or failure of any modifications that may have...
...Social Security. Pensions and benefits swell the public's purchasing power, hence are fine for merchants-and they happened to be popular with the electorate. Popular with part of the electorate are consumer co-operatives but there the retailers draw the line. The idea of private property without profit has given them the jitters, particularly since the New Deal took enough interest in co-operatives to dispatch a commission to Europe to study them in their lushest environment (TIME, July 13). Treading close to the line of downright condemnation, Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, head of the potent American Retail...
...greater egg consumption would reduce the surplus-pre-sided the angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains to reduce their retail price ... so that consumers can use and farmers sell more eggs." Four days later almost every large chain in New York City had cut its egg profits...
interest costs $400,000. After taxes and a few minor deductions the year's profit was $3,172,351.19. This profit was earned on total capital & surplus of less than $13,000,000. Like all banking houses, like many a good merchant. First Boston operates to a large extent on borrowed money, loans payable amounting to some $55,000,000 at the year end. As one of the biggest government bond dealers in the U. S., First Boston had $30.000,000 worth of Treasury issues on its shelves. Other securities, including those in joint trading accounts, footed...