Word: profits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make change for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. Packages of 1 dozen books will remain at the old price, 35 cents and 24 cents...
Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make changes for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. In packages of 1 dozen books, the prices will still be 35 cents and 24 cents...
...stand. The best means of securing revenue is by indirect taxation. An equitable reduction in the tariff is what the Republicans contend for. Free wool, with a tax on cloth, would only put money into the pockets of the manufacturers, who would continue to keep up prices. Wages and profit are both higher here than in England, but under free trade both would fall...
...managers of the Co-operative Society on the successful result of the change in the mode of conducting the society's business that was adopted last year. As the report published in another column shows, the society has covered all its running expenses and has netted besides a profit of $2,200. If the directors lay aside a third of this sum, to be added to the capital of the society, as they contemplate doing and as, indeed, it seems to us wise that they should do, a sum of something over $1,500 still remains to be divided among...
...point out the reason why the crew proved so slow would lead us too deeply into the study of their style of rowing, but in general the cause seems to lie in the failure to profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught...