Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the loggers were blinded with tears in the woods and could scarcely work at all. Johnny Inkslinger simply discovered that Italy's garlic crop had failed that year, made a contract with the Italian Government, which sent over shiploads of laborers and paid Paul Bunyan a handsome profit in addition to making the Onion River district loggable for him. Bunyan, Inkslinger and their deeds were times and times ago, of course, and Real America-the whole world, in fact- is now a very different place. But it would not be thought foolish or unmanly...
...Geraldy-Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Géraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author...
...which $35,000,000 was for the free han- dling of governmental mail (including matter franked by Congress), ocean and air subsidies. A ½¢ increase in the first-class rate, said he, would wipe out the "real deficit" of $50,000,000 and show a $10,000,000 profit. Declared Postman Tilton: "We have canvassed the whole situation and the revenue is not in the other classes.* In other classes there is competition. The railroads, for instance, carry newspapers as freight. . . . The increase in first-class postage is the only so-lution...
...Corp. last week sold for $72,500,000 its 50% ownership in Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. and Sinclair Pipe Line Co. to Standard Oil Co. of Indiana which already owned the other 50%. Sinclair Consolidated, with only $34,189,000 invested in the two companies, made the staggering profit of $38,000,000 on the deal-which eclipses even the $23,000,000 which hard-bitten Leonor Fresnel Loree made for his Delaware & Hudson when he sold his control of Wabash and Lehigh Valley to Pennsylvania. The sale is first step in pipe reorganization in Texas, Wyoming...
...petroleum business, and in that year there was not a single gasoline filling station in New York City. Standard Oil was then mostly household kerosene and machine oils, and Standard had an unchallenged monopoly. In 1904 (when Standard of New Jersey made a $62,000,000 profit) there were only 55,000 automobiles registered, 6.908.000 bbl. of gasoline produced in the U. S. Last year there were 26,501,000 automobiles registered, 447,-000,000 bbl. of gasoline produced. The sale of lubricating oil in this period, said Mr. Sheets, had risen only 4½ times, the production in gasoline...