Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...
...dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid $10 in one year including a $1 "Red Cross" special. Sales have dropped about 50% since 1929 when the company took in $15,600,000, kept $854,000 as profit. Deficits have since been the rule but the company is thoroughly solvent...
Canco appealed to a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among arguments ad- vanced before this tribunal was the claim that publication of sales figures would give competitors a clue to Canco's profit margins, thus precipitating price wars which would ruin little can companies. Last week, sitting in Philadelphia, Judge Joseph Whitaker Thompson granted Canco's plea for a temporary injunction against SEC pending further arguments, this time on the constitutionality of the Securities Exchange Act. Only other pending challenge of the 1934 Act was filed recently by Pittsburgh's Mesta Machine, builder of steelmaking machinery...
...damage suit against an employer. Industrial insurance companies immediately wanted to increase their rates. Operators of deep California gold mines, which are difficult to ventilate, would be obliged to pay $22.25 instead of the current $11 premium for every $100 they pay their men. Some mines of low-profit margin have already shut down. Others threaten to do so. Mineowners and miners, who face loss of employment, were last week beseeching California's insurance commissioner to forbid any such rate upping on account of silicosis hazards...
Although a good Christmas shopping season may result in December sales of better than $40,000,000, the 1935 profit is not expected to show much increase over 1934's mark of $32,000,000. For this season the company's stock has been conspicuously absent from the current bull market, was last week selling around $55, compared to a 1935 high...