Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ainslee's--"Profit-Sharing in America," H. E. Armstrong...
Walter Camp, treasurer of the Yale Financial Union, has recently issued a statement of receipts and expenses for Yale athletics during the past year. The report shows a deficit of about $1,400 on the total expenditure. A profit of $21,500 was made by the football association, and $3,000 was made by the baseball association, but there was a deficit of $6,000 for the boat club and about $2,800 for the track team. $17,500 was spent on the field, including $12,000 for a new grand stand...
These liquor monopolies might be either state or local corporations. But while such state corporations controlling the present traffic have many advantages, they are more rigid and less adapted to local conditions than local corporations. These local corporations, in which the profit is turned over partly to the state and partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...
...Express and Carting, 1,719.80 Coal and Wood, 14,814.19 Other Expenses, 6,009.28 Medical Branch, 44,946.72 Dividend, $8,692.55 ----- Capital, 4,118.49 12,811.04 $246,337.49 ----- ----- Membership Fees, 2,671.00 $249,008.49 $249,008.49 1899-00. ASSETS. LIABILITIES. Merchandise, $35,973.74 Capital, $28,471.52 Fixtures, 2,068.33 Profit and loss, 11,297.59 Cash, 3,983.29 Accounts payable, 7,154.89 Accounts receivable, 4,898.64 ----- ----- $46,924.00 $46,924.00 1900-01. Merchandise, $39,138.07 Capital, $32,374.75 Fixtures, 2,435.50 Sinking fund, 54.86 Cash, 6,493.10 Profit and loss, 13,211.04 Accounts receivable, 12,466.70 Accounts payable...
...Cost of merchandise, in terms of per centage of total sales. Running expenses, in terms of per centage of total sales. Profit, in terms of percentage of total sales. % % % 1900-01 83.5 12.4 4.1 1890-00 83.9 12.5 3.6 1898-99 84.4 12.6 3.0 1897-98 84.9 12.1 3.0 1896-97 85.3 11.8 2.9 Change in period from...