Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dividends of the Co-operative are ready for distribution, and will be paid today and on succeeding days, except Saturdays, at the office in Lyceum Hall, between 9 and 12 o'clock. In order to obtain dividend checks members must present their last year's membership tickets. The net profit of the Society is $10,740.99, and the rate of dividend will be 8 per cent., against a dividend rate of 7 per cent...
...financial report of the thirty-first intercollegiate track meet held on Soldiers Field on May 25 and 26, shows that the gross receipts were $5056.21, and that the total expenses were $1145.30, leaving a net profit of $3910.91. This statement compares very favorably with the reports of the last five years, the net profits of which were as follows...
...statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1906 is as follows: RECEIPTS. Gross profits from Sales, $46,125.14 Membership Fees, 2,162.00 Interest and Discount, 3,545.34 Lyceum Hall rents, 1,132.17 Other receipts, net, 70.89 $53,035.54 EXPENDITURES. Salaries, $21,666.15 Rent, 160.00 Telephone, Postage, etc., 1,291.17 Advertising, 815.44 Express and Carting, 2,243.80 Insurance, 1,132.12 Stationery, etc., 1,323.70 Gas, Electric Light, etc., 948.82 Other Expenses, 1,081.76 Lyceum Hall Expenses, 2,872.14 Interest, 2,982.14 Depreciation, fixtures, 610.45 Depreciation, real estate, 5,000.00 Balance, profit...
...hall were a money-making enterprise, run for private profit, like an ordinary boarding house, leaving it would require no justification. But the Dining Association, which conducts the Hall, and to which every man who boards there belongs, is a co-operative association. It was founded and has been conducted as a large student partnership to supply board at cost. It has been built up and steadily improved by the efforts of public-spirited, volunteer-student officers, like the late William H. Baldwin '85 and others. It seems very unlikely that the men who are now leaving the Association when...
...closing, Matthew summarized the affirmative case. The people of New York, he said, are at the mercy of a gigantic monopoly, which conducts the street railways not for the public benefit, but for private profit. The service is utterly inadequate, and unnecessarily so. The companies are deriving an extortionate profit, and they constitute a prolific source of political corruption. We can expect no relief from competition because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated...