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With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials.
>Chicago's up & coming Canteen Food Service, less than three years in the business, is already grossing $2,500,000 a year. Business is terrific for factory feeders, but so are their headaches: high prices, labor problems, food shortages and equipment and maintenance shortages. These make caterers' chief...
In a normal peacetime year Vortox, which is wholly owned by Garner and his wife, does a business of about $15,000 per month. Now it is grossing about six times that, with employment up from a few dozen men to 150 working on three shifts. Said Garner last week...
Vain, shrewd, assertive, benevolent, half uplifter, half showman, at 60 De Mille is Hollywood's oldest successful movie maker. He got there by ignoring the art of motion-picture making, concentrating on expensive theatrics, and trimming his sails to the prevailing breeze. Reap is part of his latest excursion...
In four days of the first week of Franklin Roosevelt's unlimited emergency, 18 passenger liners and two modern freighters were drafted for Army and Navy. Grossing better than 200,000 tons, they included American President Lines' brand-new President Jackson and President Adams, its older trans-Pacific...