Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every one who desires authoritative student control of the Society, temporarily a necessity for keeping artificially the number of members below the present maximum, and this might best be done probably by a slight increase in the cost of membership tickets. Such an increase would go to the clear profit of the Society; and strictly it seems no more than just if the incorporation brings all the financial improvements which are anticipated from it. But even the increase of less than a dollar, required immediately to reduce the membership by 988 would be diminished each year for three years, until...
...their most intensified form. When a customer enters the store the employes know that if he is not properly treated he can, if necessary, make the fact known at the annual meeting. Under the proposed plan, however, this incentive, the only existing one, for the employe receives no profit from his sales, will be wanting, and no other is substituted in its place...
...incorporate a business concern there must be stockholders. The stockholders, in our case, must be excluded from personal profit from their stock, and they are inevitably left exposed to the injury to reputation and standing, which would certainly result if the business should suffer while in their custody...
...year, cares not a particle for the "Co-operative Principles" but he is unwilling that nay sentimental consideration for the Co-operative movement should risk the great University branch of service which has grown up here. The Society is from his point of view a profit sharing, trading concern; practical business reasons urge its immediate incorporation. S. CUNNINGHAM...
...vote to pay the President $800 a year, and the Secretary $10 for every Directors' meeting attended. Any scheme which seeks to secure to the consumer the middleman's profit should pay its way; it should not be based on charity. To accept in the form of dividends upon one's purchases, the result of the unpaid labor of President, Secretary, or Director, is to accept charity. H.R. MEYER