Competition from other steamship lines has cut Cunard's share of sea passengers from one-third to one-fourth and this year the line showed a marked drop of profits on the Atlantic run.

When, as a diplomatic gesture of amity and in payment for the loan of gunmen in the April election, Torrio had given O'Banion a slice of Cicero, the profits from that district had been $20,000 a month.

With the loss of the Mobile trade, which ended all profits from Louisiana, the Natchez Indians revolted.

Louisiana, however, collected an income tax on the profits from the sale.

The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

The Bahamas offers attractive features to the potential investor: a stable democratic environment, relief from personal and corporate income taxes, timely repatriation of corporate profits, proximity to the U. S. with extensive air and telecommunications links, and a good pool of skilled professional workers.

Bell used his considerable profits from the laboratory for further research and education to permit the " diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf ".

DC threatened both artist and the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery with legal action if they did not cease selling the works and demanded all remaining art, as well as any profits derived from them.

Sugar men first began to think of the profits that could be made from distilling.

The allure of such profits saw an increasing number of Dutch expeditions ; it was soon seen that in trade with the East Indies, competition from each would eat into all their profits.

The Agriculturalist king is not paid by the government through its treasuries ; his livelihood is derived from the profits he earns working in the fields, not his leadership.

" Ogan saw " media imperialism often described as a process whereby the United States and Western Europe produce most of the media products, make the first profits from domestic sales, and then market the products in Third World countries at costs considerably lower than those the countries would have to bear to produce similar products at home.

After 1880, profits from printing became smaller, there was over capacity and the firms started to form combines.

He was the owner of a saloon in Dayton, Ohio, USA, and wanted to stop employees from pilfering his profits.

Under Mason's guidance, Compaq utilized its assets more efficiently instead of focusing just on income and profits, which increased Compaq's cash from $ 700 million to nearly $ 5 billion in one year.

Special damages can include direct losses ( such as amounts the claimant had to spend to try to mitigate problems ) and consequential or economic losses resulting from lost profits in a business.

As a result of his foresight, Desilu reaped the profits from all reruns of the series.

Afghanistan will have its first oil refineries within the next three years, after which it will receive 70 % of the profits from the sale of the oil and natural gas.

According to Stallman, " The only thing in the software field that is worse than an unauthorised copy of a proprietary program, is an authorised copy of the proprietary program because this does the same harm to its whole community of users, and in addition, usually the developer, the perpetrator of this evil, profits from it.

The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85 % of their profits.

Mussolini wrote approvingly of the notion that profits should not be taken away from those who produced them by their own labour, saying " I do not respect — I even hate — those men that leech a tenth of the riches produced by others ".

Therefore, franchisor fees are typically based on ' gross revenue from sales ' and not on profits realized.

Franchise contracts tend to be unilateral contracts in favor of the franchisor, who is generally protected from lawsuits from their franchisees because of the non-negotiable contracts that require franchisees to acknowledge, in effect, that they are buying the franchise knowing that there is risk, and that they have not been promised success or profits by the franchisor.

Scholars differ on whether the tours made substantial profits.

Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon ( 1995 ) takes the view that the tours were lucrative and produced long-term profits for Leopold ; Ruth Halliwell ( 1998 ) states to the contrary that their income generally only covered their travel and living expenses.

In January 2000 and 2001 the singer went on to take part in the " Enfoirés " fund-raising tours, from which all profits were donated to " Les Restaurants du cœur " ( a feed-the-homeless charity set up by the late French comedian Coluche ).

# Economic Benefits: Fishing off the coral reefs, profits from tourism, for example, Diving tours and snorkeling areas on the shallow reefs.

As mass dealer and distributor organizations grow in size, there is every reason to expect them to try to share in the manufacturer's as well as the distributor's profits -- which is, in effect, what the sale of private brands tends to do.

In 2007, following the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar, human rights organizations, gem dealers, and US First Lady Laura Bush called for a boycott of a Myanmar gem auction held twice yearly, arguing that the sale of the stones profits the dictatorial regime in that country.

SFWA subsequently listed the book for sale through a Print On Demand service, with all profits to benefit their Emergency Medical Fund.

Oliver North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

The profits from sale of the paint allowed him to pursue his other inventions.

The federal and state tax treatment of profits from sale and use of transferable tax credit have been the subject of extensive discussion and the issuance of several guidance documents by the Internal Revenue Service.

The band allowed sharing of tapes of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of their show tapes.

Derided in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as " a purely commercial affair " that cared more about profits than about literary quality, publishing is fundamentally a business, with a need for the expenses of creating, producing, and distributing a book or other publication not to exceed the income derived from its sale.

The entanglements of the various suits Dickens brought against the publishers, his resulting financial losses, and the slim profits from the sale of Carol, greatly disappointed Dickens.

eBay requires sellers to include the VAT element in their listing price and not as an add-on and thus eBay profits by collecting fees based on what governments tax for VAT ; i. e. it not only receives fees as a percentage of the sale ( net ) price but also a similar percentage of the VAT element of the overall ( gross ) price.

With the profits from the sale of the novel, the Conway brothers started the Black Diamond Publishing Company in 1905 to disseminate news of the anthracite coal region through the printing of Black Diamond Magazine.

In this system, a reusable or durable product is inexpensive, and the company draws its profits from the sale of consumable parts that the product uses.

Holberg lived modestly and was able to invest a large part of the profits from the sale of his books on the side and lend them out or invest them in more active ventures.

The company has since not been reporting profits, though it gives sale totals twice a year.

* April 1-Brunswick-Balke-Collender sells Brunswick Records to Warner Brothers, who are hopeful that the move will enable them to make bigger profits from their musicals by enabling them to profit from the sale of records.

Schmittou's business philosophy revolved around earning profits not from ticket sales, but from the sale of souvenirs and concessions.

The extraordinary profits resulting from the sale of the spices bolstered the Portuguese Crown's finances and helped lay the foundation of a Portuguese Empire that would stretch from the Americas to the Far East.

In several countries such as Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo this is due to deforestation and the desire of several governments in Central Africa to evict the Pygmies from their forest habitat in order to cash in on quick profits from the sale of hardwood and the resettlement of farmers onto the cleared land.

In 1934 her husband and son made a legal motion to place her under a conservatorship on the grounds that she had squandered profits from the sale of the couple's property in numerous donations, made in order to join the Social Democrats.

The act specified that profits should be used to benefit the poor of Taunton, but the Proprietors succeeded in avoiding their obligation until 1843, when they used the proceeds from the sale of the navigation to fund a wing of the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, and to aid the Taunton Market Trust.

The profits from the sale of land were to be used to pay for free passage of the working-class colonists and for public works, churches and schools for instance.