Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas to the vast throngs is little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians...
...bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy. The contractor jacked up the price three times, until Hilton suddenly let it be known that he was going after the Palmer House instead. Healy finally came to terms, but they were his own and gave him a clear profit of $1,500,000 for his 15-month ownership. Says Hilton in admiration of Healy's horse-trading ability: "If I had a dollar for every time I called that bricklayer an S.O.B., I wouldn't want the Stevens." Even at the $7,500,000 price, Hilton thought...
Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
...problem, as recently stated by one promoter, is simply this: "If we sell television rights, nobody comes to the fight. The only way for us to make a profit is to hang out the 'no television' sign." And that's just what is happening...
...Luce suggested profit-sharing and laws "in the direction of social justice" as a start toward bringing capitalism more in line with Christian ethics, but warned against the trend to "statism...