Word: margins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well, I'd lay my money on Harvard today, and I guess that ought to be enough of a hint for most every one. A couple of touchdowns ought to be the margin. And then: Yale 13 Brown 6 Dartmouth 19 Columbia 6 Florida 7 Georgia Tech 0 Princeton 13 Cornell 13 California 13 Penn 7 Fordham 21 Holy Cross...
...when Mr. Wrigley purchased it, and as recently as 1925 the club finished last in the league race. Then astute Mr. Wrigley got able Joseph McCarthy to manage his team. The Cubs finished fourth in 1926 and 1927, third in 1928 and this year won by so wide a margin that the last month of the schedule was an empty formality. Now baseball teams make or lose money according to whether they win or lose games. It is safe to say that for the last three years the Chicago team has shown a profit. This year, playing...
...been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while at two for 23? it has been .92?. Since the package price is 11.28? at the new wholesale price, by selling cigarets at 15? again the merchants would make their former margin of 3.72?, which is 2.5? more than they will make if they continue to offer packages...
...Chicago many gangsters, known to be heavy speculators, received margin calls, left brokers' offices muttering threats. Dynamite was thrown into the home of one Charles H. McCarthy, manager of a brokerage Credit department. Stench bombs were tossed into the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, E. A. Pierce & Co., Logan & Bryan. "A new form of wolf has invaded La Salle Street," said the deputy police commissioner, ". . . The racketeer who responds with a bomb when he is called for more margin...
Harvard's football team should have little difficulty in downing Bates by a considerable margin when spectators in the renovated Stadium today get their first glimpse of this year's Crimson eleven. The kickoff is scheduled for 3 o'clock...