Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason the dealers are so upset is that they depend on the high (in most cases, two-dollar) prices charged for Red Seal Classical records to give them their profits, feeling that the jazz helps only slightly, and serves more as a "loss-leader" or traffic enticement. In other words, It's very hard to run a store on just jazz records alone, unless you have a tremendous volume of business. The dealers are afraid that people will but the lower-priced, lower-profit-making Black Label, and endanger their greatest source of profit...
Like the characters in the "Ascent of F-6," the Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream...
...Instead of making a profit for 1939 our company lost a lot of money. We think our company lost money because so many grocers quit handling Hillbilly flour because dad was trying to get some kind of a tax bill* passed so the State could pay pensions to the old folks. . . . But we had a big surprise coming...
...whom this low seemed inviting was Floyd B. Odlum. In 1935 he had his investment trust, Atlas Corp., put around $4,000,000 into U. P. & L. debentures, the next year sold the English assets over Clarke's opposition, won for Atlas a sweet paper profit, bought more bonds. In January 1937 U. P. & L. went into the courts under 77B, Clarke's and Hopson's common stock lost control, ended by being wiped out. Odlum, who went on buying, finally held 64% of the bonds outstanding (cost to Atlas: $18,000,000), was in the driver...
Into the firm went Big Brother William, Little Brothers Mose, Sidney, John, Charles. To Mose death came in the early '20s, but the five Roses rode on, destroying for profit and progress...