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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department stores with sales of $2,000,000 or more on the average last year incurred expenses including interest on capital owned amounting to 36 per cent of sales. Gross margin, on the other hand, was only 33.2 per cent of sales, so that these department stores last year commonly earned 2 per cent on net worth. Specialty stores with sales. of $2,000,000 or more reported a smaller net loss on their merchandising operations, 1.7 per cent of sales, but a smaller final net gain on net worth, 1.6 per cent. The smaller department stores and specialty stores...
Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...
Modification of the existing laws was favored by 411, while 334 advocated a nation-wide referendum of the Eighteenth Amedment. Only 104, or less than 7 per cent of those voting, were in favor of party platforms promising continuation of the present situation. One-hundred and fifty-four opposed making a political issue of the prohibition question. This stand was taken by many who indicated that they felt that the coming campaign should be fought on more important issues. Fourteen ballots were thrown...
...Houses Lowell polled the largest vote. Of the 202 ballots cast there, only 14 opposed making the question a political issue and only 16 favored continuation of the existing situation. Eliot polled the wettest vote when only a little more than 2 per cent of the 163 in favor of putting prohibition in the platforms voted in favor of continuation of the present laws...
...prohibition poll conducted by the Daily Princetonian here today, Princeton students voted almost unanimously for the inclusion of a definite prohibition plank in the platforms of the two major political parties. On the question of what this plank should be, about 50 per cent expressed themselves in favor of total repeal of the prohibition legislation...