Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human skeletons to the Exposition Nacional de 1936 at Barranquilla, Colombia. Last week also, with hundreds of small orders for fossils and other material coming in from school children the world over, Ward's officials were basking in the knowledge that the establishment would show a year-end profit for the first time in its 74-year history. University of Rochester alumni were apprised of the present doings of Ward's in the current issue of the Rochester Alumni Review...
Ward's is capitalized at $115,000, has a current inventory close to $300,000. Gross business for 1936 up to last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger...
...tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25, at least 400 carloads will be sold in New York, 250 in Chicago. Hundreds of carloads will be sold off the sidings in other cities, bringing U. S. tree dealers a total business of perhaps $10,000,000. Of the profit there can be no certainty. A carload of Christmas trees the day after Christmas is worth less than nothing...
...Spitz of Chicago, who had been counsel for the old Lubliner & Trinz theatre chain there, later with Balaban & Katz and finally with Paramount. Radio's Sarnoff resigned as chairman of RKO and NBC's Aylesworth was moved upstairs. RKO finished 1935 with $684,733, its first profit since...
...oddest theme in the RKO story is that while its finances went from bad to worse, its position in the cinema industry showed astonishing improvement. In booming 1929, RKO was hardly more than a promotion. Today it is a first-flight producer, distributor and exhibitor and showed a profit of $1,446,000 for the first 39 weeks...