Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escort him to a hotel where the Press was assembled. It was the Press in a far larger sense than what the President meets each Tuesday and Friday at noon in his office. This was the Associated Press-a non-partisan organization which collects and distributes news, not for profit but for its members' convenience. Newspaper publishers from all over the land were in Manhattan for the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Most of them went into the hotel to hear what the President would say. Those who did not go in either listened...
...with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty...
...dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that one of his stores, fighting the devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit or none at all." Should this 11? policy be followed at all Schulte stores it might well be imitated by the United Cigar Stores (allied with Schulte through the Union & United Tobacco Corp.). President Schulte blamed the A & P stores for the general price cutting situation...
...however, no dressing room. ¶ Last week also- saw further consolidation in the parent industry when newly-formed (TIME, March 18) Aviation Corp.. took over Colonial Airways, capitalized at $5,000,000. ¶ Pratt & Whitney (produced 960 engines in 1928; plan 2,000 in 1929) an nounced net profit first quarter of 1929, of $1,300,274 as against $337,012, first quar...
...production exceeded 1928 Ford production. Last week, however, a dollars-and-cents answer was provided. From figures filed last week with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations in Boston, it appeared that the new model bill was something more than $72,000,000. For, according to these figures, the Ford profit and loss surplus† had dwindled from $654,851,061 at the end of 1927 to a mere $582,629,563 at the end of 1928, thus indicating a year's loss of $72,221,498-not counting, of course, what Ford profits might have been if Model...