Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have-impartiality...
Childs Co. (reluctant meat-servers): $289,326 (deficit), as against $125,801 (profit...
Madison Square Garden Corp. (prizefights, campaign speeches): $308,448 (deficit), as against $52,848 (profit...
...structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred were in essence as follows: 1) Liquor - to give the States their choice between a) the present Federal Prohibition or b) manufacture and sale of liquor, not for private profit or public (saloon) consumption, but under State administration, for home consumption. 2) Farm Relief - Federal assistance in distributing marketing costs over units of any crop in which a price-depressing sur plus occurs. 3) Water Power - Government develop ment, ownership and control of undevel oped sites still in the Government...
...industry as a whole. And. as everyone knows the greatest single unit in the copper industry is the mammoth Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Chief of producers, chief (through the controlled American Brass Co.) of manufacturers, Anaconda's assets top $500,000,000. With prices mounting to profit-making levels, with an effective Copper Export Association to relate supply to demand. Anaconda looked, last week, towards record sales, record profits...