Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 to 1,500,000 patrons in Chicago alone, the team must have been returning a profit on its investment at which...
...cook book or a box of chewing gum with every can. Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated on that and gave away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks. Often his premiums wiped out his profits and he never made much money until he started to advertise, first in small town papers and store windows, then on billboards and in city papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then...
...promotional "hokum" was this. Mr. Cord, an artful automotive engineer, a great salesman, an inspired executive and a wise financier, took over the management of the Auburn Automobile Co. in 1924 when it was building obsolescent cars and losing money. He reorganized manufacturing processes, designed new models,* perked up the sales force. Since 1926 he has made Auburn show a yearly increasing profit, and, even more momentously, sent its stock from a low of $31.75 in 1925 to a high of $514 this year.† Since then he has been buying parts manufacturers - Lycoming Manufacturing Co. (automobile and aviation engines...
...reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent out by the co-operative association, and take...
...York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world's largest. They have six children...