profits of industry
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profit
noun
uk/ˈprɒf.ɪt/us/ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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The intuitive reason for this is that a worsening in terms of trade would reduce the profits of industry and therefore the return on capital.
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I hope he will ask him what he proposes to do to maintain his revenue if the profits of industry disappear.
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They were very generous indeed with industry, and the profits of industry rose very rapidly between 1970 and 1973.
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First, it should consider how the profits of industry should be shared out.
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There has correspondingly been a very large reduction in the level of the profits of industry.
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It tried, on the one hand, to obtain for the workers a larger share in the profits of industry.
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Everybody agrees that formerly labour had not a sufficient share in the profits of industry.
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The profits of industry have always generated a certain amount of emotive power in certain sections of our community.
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After all, the ordinary shareholder is the only one in industry who will derive a benefit from the larger profits of industry.
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The position there is that the profits of industry are all subject to double taxation.
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His conclusion was that there was nothing much more to be had from the profits of industry.
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First, the distributed equity of the profits of industry has risen since 1938 to an index number of between 150 and 160.
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We know by experience what this increased participation in the profits of industry reallymeans.
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We on this side would agree that there may be a case for taxing the costs rather than the profits of industry.
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But these are not the profits of industry.
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In fact, since the last war the undistributed profits of industry have been practically the sole source from which industry could draw new finance.
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One heard a great deal about profiteering manufacturers, until the profits of industry almost disappeared.
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If these increases of income are not the profits of industry, can we regard them as being the rewards of indolence?
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It will tend to prevent the profits of industry from falling as they have been falling for a long time past.
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