Word: profitability
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...Haldeman-Julius is an American of the Americans. He believes in quantity production, dominant advertising, bargain-sales, small individual profit but big turnover and all the rest of it. He has adapted the methods of Ford to the business of publishing...
...aggressive Mr. Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association, has again launched his favorite project-to withhold the cotton crop until it reaches a price level where farmers can make what he calls "a legitimate profit." This suggestion is extraordinary enough, coming as it does in this day of practically 30-cent cotton. But the means by which it is to be realized are more extraordinary still. Mr. Wannamaker's "plan" is to have individuals, clubs and corporations buy many bales of cotton, store them in warehouses, and borrow on the warehouse receipts at banks for a period...
...find. The great majority of undergraduates have only the remotest idea of what the Dean's List is; and by most of them it is thought of as an unattainable object. When the requirements are plainly understood, it becomes evident that by a slight effort many more men could profit by its privileges than the number listed at present. The facts are these: all men who attain Groups I and II in the Rank List (that is, all who have had a record of one and one-half A's and two and one-half B's or better...
...Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best possible basis...
...need of federal regulation, licensing, and inspection of planes cannot be over-emphasized. Nothing has been done for safety so far, although safety is the most important factor in aviation. In the army and navy the planes are thoroughly examined before every flight, while with civilians, flying for profit, the temptation is toward a cursory inspection. There should be a federal law against flying in uninspected planes...