Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will continue to seil to whoever will buy. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that he will stand no nonsense from Capitalists attempting to make speculative purchases in Germany of material the Fatherland needs for its own war machine, with a view to selling at a profit to Italy. Brazil Blanketed. From a world news standpoint the effect of Geneva's lie was to blanket and distract attention from the arrival in Geneva that day of by far the most negative note received by the League of Nations since it asked nonLeague States to declare themselves...
...having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed by the Emperor of Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last...
...North American Co. As Mr. Williams was one of the members of last week's purchasing group, he will presumably get back his Central States shares and Mr. Odium will be pretty well out of North American. But chief reason for sale of Blue Ridge was the large profit returned on the investment. Lehman Bros. The banking house of Lehman Bros, dates from 1850, when Brothers Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, emigrating from Germany, started a cotton commission business in Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved to New York. They helped form...
...boom days of pipe-line construction, but its sheet division is now more prosperous. Youngstown's 1931-34 deficits came to $31,000,000. After losing money in the first half of 1935, Youngstown made $575,000 in the third quarter, squeezed out a nine-month profit of $104,000 against a $1,669,000 loss...
Other good steel earners of the first three quarters include Wheeling ($2,251,000), Otis ($1,360,000), and Allegheny ($747,000). Jones & Langhlin, along with U. S. Steel, is still in the red, but a third-quarter profit of $234,000 cut the nine-month deficit to $516,000 and made the steel industry a practically unanimous profitmaker on current operations...