Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two general ways to get more goods: by encouraging the expansion of capacity or by letting prices skyrocket until producers get in motion under the urge of big profits. The first seems preferable to Henderson and the New Dealers, and is the direction in which the U.S. is rapidly moving; the second is the theory of free-price advocates, who believe that the profit motive alone is sufficient incentive in U.S. industry...
...fiscal year ending March 31, 1938. Esquire-Coronet. Inc. had an $807,000 profit. In the following twelve months (during which much of the stock distribution took place) profits were listed at $306,000. Part of the reduction was due to the failure of Ken to catch on. That cost $197,000. But profits would have been only $101,000 if $205,000 of circulation-promotion expense had not been capitalized as an asset instead of charging it off as expense. This did not include all rebates made on the year's issues. If these, subsequently paid, had been...
Harvard students, especially residents in this state, should participate in the sessions in Boston, make the contribution of which they are capable and profit from association with other young people of varying background and creed. Further information concerning program, speakers, etc., may be secured from the Massachusetts Youth Council, 38 Chauncy St., Boston, Devonshire 8860. Lawrence Shubow...
...through its recommendations to raise an additional $3,600,000,000 in new taxes, that from here out defense will mean sacrifice. It was the Administration's bluntest effort yet to take the sugar coating off the emergency. As far as business was concerned, it meant that the profit motive is practically out for the duration...
...less drastic than this liquidation of the profit motive is the Treasury's direct attack on consumer buying. This is the first tax proposal in U.S. history deliberately planned to cut consumption hard...