Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have reversed them. They had not however junked the social aspects. On the fiscal side, French New Deal persecution of gold hoarders was dropped; they were enabled, without giving even their names, to get full value for their gold at the Bank of France (i. e., a "40% profit" in devalued francs) and to buy bonds payable in francs, dollars or sterling upon demand; finally Finance Minister Auriol inspired confidence by giving up his stranglehold on the French currency exchange control fund and this will be managed by a new committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time...
...customers, to tell how they had made and lost money in Tack. Fly Clubber James Corcoran dealt from Boston with W. E. Hutton II, wiring him on one occasion: "I am sitting on 700 tacks. Where do I get off?" Partner Hutton got him off 600 Tacks at a profit of $2,400. The other customers questioned were those of Jerry McCarthy, a customers' man in Hutton's Detroit office...
Disillusioned also was Del Baker, the Tigers' coach, who last week testified that Jerry McCarthy had bought 400 shares of Tack for a discretionary Baker account at $25 per share. But while the customers' man sold his sisters' Tack holdings at a profit, he failed to do as much for Del Baker. Through friends of Mickey Cochrane, Jerry McCarthy got another Tack customer in the person of a Mrs. Kathryn Smith, who bought 100 shares at $17.75 per share, saw it go up, finally got rid of it at $16.50 because she "didn't want...
Dramatic Club members are playing the male leads in the Erskine School's "Merry Wives of Windsor" which opened at the Repertory Theatre last night. John L. Profit '40 has the part of Sir John Falstaff. Richard H. Seymour is playing Mr. Page in the production. Important supporting positions will be handled by Russell E. Sard, Jr. '39, and James H. Legendre...
...Canada. Publishers' Financial Bureau distributes the founder's views to 400 newspapers. A. P. W. Paper Co. (paper towels) is Babson-dominated, as is Gamewell Co., which makes fire and burglar alarms, signal systems, automatic sprinklers. Babson Institute is an endowed, non-profit-making business school with a 300-acre campus and ten buildings in Babson Park, Mass. where all Babson activities in Wellesley Hills are concentrated. The Institute now has 130 students including sons of President Benjamin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel, President Clarence Francis of General Foods Corp. and Vice President Thomas L. Smith of Standard...