Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seemed transitory. Individual lives were undoubtedly affected by the intense antagonism shown toward the Church, and many weak minds succumbed to fanaticism. We are now on the receding wave of the movement and therefore we are in a position to see the mistakes made in earlier times and to profit by them...
...order to attract capital from men of wealth, who want sure, safe, investments, a new concern issues preferred stock. The condition attached to this stock is that a certain fixed dividend be paid on the preferred stock before the holders of common stock receive any advantage from the profit. Although the common stock is speculative in character it is frequently more remunerative than preferred stock as is seen at present in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company. The proportion of capital of the large combinations, which goes toward the cost of their promotion is an immense item...
...balance sheet showed a profit it would seem only logical that such a state of things should reflect itself in a judicious decrease in the prices of food and not in an increase in employees' salaries. But to increase salaries, when the association is not making its expenses, is certainly so radical a departure from the fundamental principles of the society as to deserve at least a word of public criticism. Member...