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Selling the Happiness and Mirror control was United Cigar Stores Co. of America which is likewise profitless and has found this experiment in distribution a burden...
...million and a half berth passengers On May 1 it will reduce its rates 22% on sections (upper and lower berths combined). It hopes single passengers, to get privacy by day, air and space by night, will buy sections instead of lowers, thus supply revenue from otherwise empty profitless uppers. Present section rate New York-Chicago: $16.20. New section rate...
...meet discouraging reports from London on the progress of the Naval Conference (see p. 21). While he was not ready to despair of some form of success from the parley, he was disappointed at the manner in which its negotiations seemed to be going around & around & around in a profitless circle. Chief Delegate Stimson continued to send him optimistic reports on the possibility of progress, but Stimson optimism did not seem to jibe with the pessimistic cablings of expert newsmen. Strong though the temptation was for him to interfere with the U. S. delegation, to take what diplomats call...
...another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...enchantment was shattered by the arrival of Clara Hunting's sons, together with Mr. Hodge, their tutor. He, a teacher of mathematics, resented the untidy brilliance of Mr. Hazard; his resentment was effective. Mr. Hazard felt himself compelled to resume elsewhere his pursuit of peace, a pursuit always profitless in this dusty world for one like Mr. Hazard, who, fierce, bewildered, and alone, was not entirely its inhabitant...