Word: profits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime (1916-22) Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who owns a large, commercial pig ranch and tells his former constituents that "you and I keep pigs for profit, not prizes...
...dominating attention by accomplishment. Scientific and archeological expeditions, more obscure, are as permanent in daring and achievement. In an age that turns anew to the production of complete gentlemen, of physical as well as intellectual fortitude, Count Von Luckner's is a fortuitous invitation to the men that may profit from it most...
Tobacco & Sodas. United Cigar Stores bought considerable stock in Bastian-Blessing Co., from whom it will buy all its soda fountain equipment needed during the next ten years. Bastian-Blessing dividends thus will be a sort of indirect, shuttle profit to United Cigars...
...than two cents per kilowatt hour and then sold by this government plant for eight cents. Does not the Democratic program, of government ownership of the generating plants, with distribution by private companies mean that consumers will be forced--as they now are in Alabama--to pay an enormous profit to the distributing companies? Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, Donald Thompson 1Dv., President...
...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...