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Word: profits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the antiquities of the U. S. theatre and the latter, through the agencies of Jimmy Savo, Trixie Friganza, Roy Atwell and Fred Keating, celebrate in the most conventionally spectacular manner the excellencies of the contemporary revusical. Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown, and Jimmy Savo is such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what companies have Morgan connections, or how much stock interest, if any, J. P. Morgan Co. holds in them. Speculators eager to know how much the name of Morgan is like the touch of Midas, have spent much time calculating what profit Morgan stocks have shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Twenty Climbers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway, the unions aren't as strong as they used to be. . . . If the Southern textile owners and operators tie up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Southern Sayings | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week, however, Swift & Co. an nounced new Swift products which well may add to the Swift family net profit. By means of a new quick-freezing process, fresh meats have been put on the market in the packaged and branded form long associated only with cured meats (ham, bacon). Thus the U. S. housewife may now telephone her butcher, order Swift pork chops, lamb chops, and pork tender loins, all neatly wrapped in parchment or cellophane, trimmed, ready to cook. Soon available will be sliced calf liver and beef liver, and packaged legs and shoulder of lamb. Eventually planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billion Sales | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

When such an educational process has been completed, and the public is as ready to become a profit-sharing real estate partner as it is to become a profit-sharing partner in General Motors, the realtor, now dealing in readily negotiable securities, will find his once frozen assets now thawed, liquid and disposable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Unfreezing Assets* | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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