Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is a Cercle Francais,--some know of it, some profit by it, and some work at it. The Cercle deserves a much better kind of attention than this sort of perfunctory sympathy that it receives. As a matter of fact it is one of the oldest organizations in the University, as may have been noticed by the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary...
...real reason for the fall is that the French budget is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Although the ordinary budget has been balanced by a transfer from the "extraordinary budget," the actual deficit for last year in the profit and loss account of the French Treasury was stated to be 23,000,000,000 francs. This was, of course, largely for reconstruction work in the devastated areas and the money was, or has to be, found by another issuance of government bonds. Thus it was said that "95% of the assets of the Bank of France are obligations...
...labor, and above all, with its waste from war. Ours is a system which contains the seeds of inevitable war, a system which is not only going to breakdown, but which has broken down, and functions today most miserably in many parts of Europe. We must substitute service for profit as the supreme motive in life, and begin social organization and the deliberate planning of industry. In America unlike Europe, there is time to apply intelligence to the working out of a new system before the inevitable crash of capitalism...
...might seriously damage the Administration. To force a settlement distasteful to the public or to the 160,000 miners in the pivotal states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois would be even more unfortunate. In such a contingency a candidate differing from the President ?Mr. Johnson, in fact?might profit materially...
...answer of those who advocate lowering the surtaxes is that the Mellon plan actually proposes to get more money out of the very rich. Those with incomes of $100,000 and over will profit in three ways by the Mellon plan...