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.
Dean stated: It looks as though Rosenberg is the king pin of a very large ring, and if there is any way of breaking him by having the shadow of a death penalty over him, we want to do it. The Rosenbergs were the only two American civilians to be executed for espionage-related activity during the Cold War.