Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them through the heart. Down to St. Louis go the skins to be sold at auction by the Government. Last week the U. S. auctioned off some 15,000 skins, collected $282,640. Of this, 15% will be paid to Canada, 15% to Japan. The rest represents a tidy profit to the U. S. on a shrewd investment in Alaskan real estate...
...Alaska's seals, he wants no confusion between this fur-bearing variety (Callorhinus alascanus) and the common hair-seal. Alaska has 80% of the world's fur seals. Besides seals, the Pribilof Islands are well stocked with foxes. From these the U. S. gets another item of profit-$27,735 from 777 foxes in the fiscal year...
...price of a small cabin cruiser such as he sails on Biscayne Bay. For his young brother Nicholas ("Nikko") Saltus Ludington it might buy a few new mounts for his large stable of hunters. For either brother, it would be hardly more than pin money. But the $8,073.61 profit which showed on a balance sheet upon Brother Townsend's desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first...
...School. This opportunity is provided through the terms in the will of the late George H. Leatherbee, which makes one course in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration available each year without charge to men who satisfy the Faculty that their experience will permit them to profit from the work. Applicants for admission to this course must apply in writing to the Dean of the School...
...generally built into reasonably inoffensive entertainment, unmarred by the ineptitudes which can make bad plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while...