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Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...
...There must be an "orderly development" of Middle Eastern oil properties, with due regard for the economic interests of local governments. This means recognition by the British, in terms of production and not in profitless concessions, that the U.S. has somewhere near an equal interest in the area...
Biggest year-end news in magazine publishing is that Curtis Publishing Co.'s Ladies' Home Journal in February will raise its price from 10? to 15? a copy; from $1 to $1.50 a year, thereby dropping out of any profitless race among the 10? women's magazines for more & more circulation...
...prewar barter deals with Germany were all small, bothersome, profitless. On an oil deal, the U.S. exporters got 8,000,000 mouth organs; for an auto body press, 200,000 canaries; for a movie, one live hippopotamus...
...York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session. The 3 o'clock gong found members shrugging their shoulders at the end of one more lackadaisical, profitless day. But in the offices of Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co., the gong was the signal for a burst of activity. Dillon, Read headed a group of investment bankers and brokers with 500,000 shares of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) common to sell (for the estate of Oil Heir Edward Stephen Harkness). The bankers got busy on telephone and wire...