A profit function is a function that focuses on business applications. The primary purpose for a business is to sell a product or service in order to make a profit, which is the revenue a company receives for selling a product or service less the cost for creating a product or service.
Publisher. A+E Networks. In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.
Julius Rosenberg was arrested on July 17, 1950, and his wife was taken into custody a few weeks later. The Rosenbergs were brought to trial the following March, and both proclaimed their innocence. By this time, the U.S. military was engaged in the Korean War, and strong anti-communist sentiments were held nationwide.