Word: profits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Untermyer, famed lawyer and capitalist, purchased a 32-acre tract at Palm Beach for $75,000. Critics at the time declared the price excessively high. Lawyer Untermyer held on till recently, when he vindicated his judgment by selling out his ocean-front property for $775,000-a profit of nearly...
...There seems to be a general agreement to misunderstand Yale's recent action. The sons of Yale graduates are to be given preference only if they can fulfill the entrance requirements. Such limitation must, of course, debar the unfit and open limitless possibilities to those who can and will profit by their advantages. On the whole, this is the present trend in American colleges...
During last year preferred dividends were maintained, but in September the common dividend was passed. The annual report revealed the reason. For 1924, a deficit of $11,969,837 was incurred, compared with a profit of $9,326,623 for 1923. Last year the net loss after taxes and charges amounted to $4,025,865, and $2,918,555 was in addition charged off for depreciation, leaving a deficit before dividends of $6,944,420. Since $3,500,000 was paid out in dividends on preferred stock, $1,516,667 in common stock, and $8,750 on stocks of subsidiaries...
...notoriously feast -or -famine character of the railway equipment business was illustrated by the annual report of the Baldwin Locomotive Co. for 1924. In 1923, the company's net profit before dividends was $6,516,465, or $25.58 on each of the 200,000 common shares, after paying the 7% dividend on the 200,000 preferred shares. In consequence, after paying $1,400,000 on both its preferred and common stock, profit and loss surplus was brought up to $19,847,242. Last year, however, net before dividends was only $1,320,026, or only $6.60 on each preferred share...
...Senior could profit by an expansion of interest in his Senior year it never before. College for the first time begins to mean something to him in broad perspective. Perspective of any sort is a real accomplishment. Usually your young man has to wait until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks...