Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a Chicago World's Fair promoter, three days after their birth, to ship them to Chicago as a sideshow. Last week the nursery, under the administration of Dr. Dafoe and a board of guardians appointed by Ontario's Attorney General, had piled up nearly $30,000 profit, a large part from newsreel contracts. The Parent Dionnes and their other five children, in the old farmhouse 100 yards away, were living far better than in the days before Mother Dionne labored five times in three-quarters of an hour. Into this idyll crashed "Mitch" Hepburn...
...cost over $400,000,000 some 30 years ago. Its net profit for 1933 was over $5,000,000 (before Roosevelt). Prior to Japanese interference in setting up the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
...paid Inventor Kruesi a modest advance royalty. Last week the Fairchild factory at Woodside, L. I. was working day & night to fill an Army order for 500 Kruesi Compasses. From this $150,000 order, Inventor Kruesi will receive not one penny. Reason: He is a Government employe, may not profit from Government expenditures...
...family of 16 occupy a ramshackle two-room house, operating a farm as tenants. Rent: 800 lb. of cotton a year. Last year's crop was four bales. After paying two bales for rent and two for fertilizer and funds advanced, the year's profit...
...candy of other manufacturers. On windless summer days the town of Hershey, Pa. (pop. 2,500) is permeated by a sweet sickish odor which Pennsylvania Dutch farmers round about call "da chockle shtink." But the Hershey earnings have not always been as steady as the Hershey "chockle shtink." Net profit dropped from $7,635,000 in 1931 to $4,246,000 in 1933, largely on account of competition from Peters and Nestle's bars. Baker's cocoa and Rockwood's candy coating. Last year, however. Hershey did better. Last week its directors announced earnings for the year...