Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking of lack of fidelity towards those whose property is confided to the managers of the corporation. The question there is only one of simple probity, of dealing as an honorable trustee would deal with his cestuis. He will not take advantage of his position to make a profit at their expense. The true principle is that no director of a corporation should buy or sell stock in consequence of any information which he has acquired in that fiduciary capacity, and which is not equally accessible to all the stockholders; that he should not make any incidental profit...
...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
Should the hammer-throw be changed? This question is one that has been much discussed of late among those who are especially interested in track athletics, and the CRIMSON, in the belief that a thorough discussion of the problem would be of interest and profit, has invited correspondence on the subject from the track coaches of several large colleges and universities. Some of this correspondence we are printing in another column. The comments received in reply to our questions on the matter represent the careful thought of men who are very closely connected with track athletics in this country...
...canvass recently made among the 20 preparatory schools to learn just where the available athletic talent of those institutions would continue their scholastic work when they graduate next June, divulges the fact that Yale will profit materially in the matter of selection, as the New Haven university is scheduled to draw by far the larger share of the captains of the school teams...
...direction of men from the Business School. But, most important of all its good work, this committee has published the University Register in a style far ahead of what it has been in the past. This venture was conducted in a most businesslike way and yielded a very substantial profit...