Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trade standard in the near future, as over 2,100 copies have been sent out and the Bureau now has 275 co-operators who send in their returns regularly. The blank which is sent out contains a long list of questions to be answered as to the stock, the profit from each article, the expenses of delivery, number of helpers, and so forth. The co-operator answers these questions faithfully and then mails them back to the Bureau. The figures are next compared with the averages of the other accounts, and it is possible to ascertain the developments in which...
...formal inauguration of a new project, which it is hoped will perform a valuable service to the scholarship of the College. The Scholarship Service Bureau aims to make itself useful to men who are doing poorly in their studies, but who have some seriousness and are able to profit by assistance. Under the present system, the man who fails to learn by experience how to study effectively receives no direct guidance or aid; and he soon finds himself on probation, fast sinking to the danger level...
...moral right to celebrate a victory if he never contributes to that victory, unless he is engaged in some other activity? If the undergraduates who waste countless afternoons with useless amusements would give their time to conscientious work at Soldiers Field--the University track team would profit and would attain a greater measure of success...
...side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty to thirty-five percent. of the price paid by the consumer does goes to the retailer, the services of the latter are far from being dispensable. It is much easier to say that his profit is too high than to show how his expenses can be reduced. "As manufacturers and wholesalers are themselves sentially closely connected with the retail trade, the thorough study of the business is one of wide-spread interest and the results are vitally important to the success of business education...
...harbor only blind and unreasoned opinions (and vague illusions as to how American sympathies ought to run and why, etc.), assume that humility implied in "understatement and restraint." Only when we can know the hard facts can we direct our sympathies with justice and our humanitarian endeavors with profit. N. J. SILBERLING...