Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...army thought certain qualified men would profit by further training, it might send them off to college and keep them on the pay roll at the same time. The objection to the present scheme is that the army gains recruits at the expense of our colleges. The safe answer to such a plan is Princeton's: "that while there are no scholarships to be set aside for the purpose, money is available to pay the expenses of qualified enlisted men." Long before the army ever thought of this device, money was available for qualified men. Offering it on these terms...
Third, the private manufacture of arms and ammunition for profit by corporations has stimulated many wars. The revolutions of South and Central America have been promoted, stimulated and carried on because the ammunition companies of the United States have made millions out of the business. The wars in the Balkans and other half developed countries of the Old World have also been stimulated and provoked in order that the big ammunition manufacturers of Great Britain, France and Germany could make their millions...
...significance, too, in the fact that this work is given by shops run on the co-partnership plan between labor and capital; shops where the workers as well as the directors have a vote on matters concerning the management of the business and receive their share of the profit. It is this condition--a condition that is sensible, just, and, in these days of general education, inevitable--that has been brought about by Italy's much-heralded "uprising." Instead of terrorism, there is peace; instead of idleness, there is labor; instead of restlessness and oppression there is stability...
...inevitable that in times of a general drop in prices, goods must be sold at a reduced profit or even at a loss, because the change in wages tends to lag behind the change of commodity rates. Hence the producer is forced to pay a higher wage than the lowered price of his commodity justifies. The only way to prevent this, is to keep prices up to the high level...
...sprung, quite phoenix-like, from the ashes of the old. The ten dollars which he then reluctantly tossed on the altar of charity for the support of a supernumerary club in which he took no interest, is now replaced by seven-fifty well invested, bringing dividends of enjoyment and profit far exceeding the dreams of the Union founders...