What's the deal them profits is comin' from, and how much you figger they'll be?
I've figgered my profits in this store, countin' in low prices, wouldn't be a cent under a couple of thousand the first year.
Inventory, and a share in the profits of a deal I got in mind.
I figgered my profits on drivin' at about two thousand this year.
He returned with a certified check for twenty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and nineteen cents, of which five thousand was rental of his river, and four thousand and odd dollars were his profits on his provisions.
The Profits that accrue to the King from Corn-Lands.
And then their Commander placeth another in their room; but so long as the Land lies void, he converts the Profits to his own proper use.
The benefit of which is, that all the Profits which before the King received from those Towns, now accrues unto the Kings Officer.
Whome the King makes Dissauva's And their Profits and Honours.
When the Italian fruit-seller finds that he is heir to a ducal palace you cannot tempt him any more with the paltryprofits of his trade or the company of his old associates.
Provision is made for their redemption, but when redeemed they continue to share in the profits and merely lose the interest-bearing feature.
These shares are not stock, but are, rather, certificates of obligation, requiring the company to pay 10 per cent of its profits to the promoters and founders of the original company and their heirs and assigns.
The profits from imperialism are only a part of the profits from foreign investment.
A difficulty, inhering in all plans, is that there is no rule of law or morals that will decide how much each {267} nation should secure from theprofits of exploitation.
The profits in 1755 on the trade with Canada would not have justified Great Britain in seeking to acquire it.
The profits from foreign, as from domestic investments, may be drawn upon at will for national purposes.
The United States profits far more immediately from the economic development of Canada and Jamaica than does the United Kingdom.
On the other hand the very extension of our home market tends to make us negligent of foreign exports of manufactures and to consider the profits from this business as a mere by-product.
The servants of England are supported by India, Egypt and the Rand Mines, as also by the profitson New York real estate and American rails.
The bigprofits come from the manufacture of articles of common use, and the home demand for such articles is limited by the consuming capacity of poor men.
It increases our home market, widens the home investment field and reduces the intense sharpness of competition for the profits of the backward countries.
She penetrates these countries economically, crushes their industries, forces upon them her own industrial products, extracts from them the profitswhich should go to their own manufacturers.
The profits from imperialistic investments are merely a bonus.
The desire for greater profits and higher wages present themselves not nakedly, but garbed with idealistic motives.
Two-thirds of this amount represented beaver skins, the profits on which were very fluctuating, on account of the unwise regulations by which, the trade was constantly crippled.
Million of money, the profits of which have been sunk as an Underwriter, that I might have the use of my capital employed in it, to pay my unfortunate losses.
There is no option left; the price of Paper is now so high that the Proprietors have no longer an interest to render their sale extensive, as far as regards the profits of a large circulation.
The labourer is desired to work for his daily bread, to which the wages are made to correspond, and, of course, the cheaper bread is, the greater are the profits of the master.
It was not slavery, therefore, which ruined Italian cultivation; for the whole pasture cultivation which yielded such immense profits was conducted by slaves.
Its campaign fund was the dues paid in by its members and the profits from the New Day.
On making known to others of my friends the plan of my voyage, two of them engaged to embark to the amount of a thousand dollars each, on condition of sharing equally the profits at the end of the voyage.
By the terms of the agreement, Dryden engaged to supply the house with three plays every year, in return for which, he was admitted a shareholder in the profits of the theatre to the extent of one share and a-half.
There were no profits so small as to be below the king's attention.
By this contrivance, the pope augmented the profits which he reaped from granting dispensations, and likewise those from divorces.
Their activity in this direction interfered with the profits of English producers and merchants.
In despite of all laws, however, the trade in slaves was continued secretly, and the profits were so enormous that the risks did not prevent continual attempts to smuggle slaves into the territory of the United States.
Most prominent of these are the Sugar Trust and the Standard Oil Company, which have eliminated the element of competition from those industries and accumulated their profits in the hands of a few great capitalists.
A disposition to replace violent measures by peaceful arbitration is growing up, while in some instances employers have agreed to share a portion of their profits with their employees.
As two of the ships-of-the-line were never heard from after sailing on the return voyage, the king's profits were probably small.
The conditions generally provided that a certain proportion of the profitsshould go to the king, in return for the use of the ships.
From the profits derived from the slave trade, churches have been built, cathedrals reared and priests paid.
The question of the shares in which the profitsshould be distributed was not one, however, that frequently arose in practice, because it was the almost universal custom for the partners to make this a term of their original contract.
Of course this motive was capable of bearing a very extended and elastic interpretation, and would justify increased commercial profits according as the standard of life improved.
The legitimacy of the profits of the commendator never seems to have caused the slightest difficulty to the canonists.
Within fairly wide limits it was possible to arrange for the division of the profits in unequal shares--say two-thirds and one-third.
The question which occupied the greatest space in the treatises on the subject was the share in which the profits should be divided between the parties.
The most usual arrangement for the division of the profits of the adventure was that the commendatarius should receive one-fourth and the commendator three-fourths.
At times he handed her small amounts of money, said to be her share of the profits on speculations, for which he required the loans.
It is not true that honesty, as far as material gain is concerned, profits individuals.
Schire and Greue, and pronounced as Shire and Reue) whose office is to gather vp and bring his accounts into the excheker, of the profits of his countie receiued, whereof he is or may be called Quaestor comitatus or Prouinciae.
I don't jest see whar hitprofits me ter know things thet I kain't make no use of," he demurred, and Sim Squires bent forward with haunted eyes.
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