Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser...
...remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant...
Gross margin for mason material dealers in 1928 was 23.2 per cent of sales; total expense, 22.7 per cent; leaving a net profit over and above return on investment of 0.5 per cent, or $.50 for each $100. of sales. Profits of 3 per cent or over were secured by more than one-fifth of the firms...
Companies handling lumber reported a gross margin of 25.8 per cent; total expense of 25.0 per cent; and net profit on sales of 0.8 per cent. Stock-turn was at the rate of 3.1. times a year. Profits of 3.0 per cent or over were shown by one-fourth of them...
...firms selling lumber and mason materials, gross margin was 24.4 per cent: total expense, 22.8 per cent; and net profit, 1.6 per cent. Profits of 3.0 per cent were realized by about one-third of the dealers in this class...