Word: profitability
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...that the roads are back in private hands, the old malady has begun to develop again. The country is too big to support two hundred roads on a profit-making basis. Therefore, we have the cry for mergers. Let the strong roads absorb the weak; guard against the old game of stockjobbing, secret rebates, " milking" and " watering," but give the people the benefit of a trust without its monopoly privileges...
...fact, a great deal of money. This is quite extraordinary, when opera companies in the United States have an extraordinary record for losing heavily and going stranded. It can be safely said that the San Carlo troupe is the first opera venture in American history to make a good profit on its investment. The explanation is to be found largely in the personality of Fortune Gallo, owner of the company. He is an amazing fellow. He left Italy years ago, as he tells you, with nothing save a few dollars and his guitar. These he lost in a card game...
...Harvey Robinson, author of The Mind in the Making: "What do we do in school to help a child to understand himself and his fellowmen in the light of modern psychological discoveries? Of religion and family life nothing critcal must be said. Nor can any fair discussion of the profit system be encouraged for fear of a suspicion of socialistic leanings...
...number who would profit by the plan may be numbered by those in the Library any night now at ten o'clock for almost all who stay until that hour would naturally prefer to continue until bed-time; and those who left would be replaced by others who had early-evening engagements and chose, to put in an hour or two of study afterward. The University, eager as it is to encourage study by any possible means, will find the extra outlay valuable from that point of view, and gratefully received by the students...
...perfecting this point was one of the determining factors in the move to tide-water, the fact was a source of great satisfaction to the coaches. As yet no departure has been made from a slow paddle because it is felt that several days may be spent with profit on balance and other points impossible of perfection on the machines before any attempt is made to test the racing potentialities of the oarsmen. The fact that there are only three scheduled races for the University crew this spring with the consequent extended period of possible preparation also make it likely...