Word: profits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skin 50 cats a day; he will charge $2 a day for his labor; it will take about 100 men to operate the ranch; therefore, the profit will be about...
...college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in college, or to hear that "the bottom 20% [of the group studied] might have been barred from entering college to the profit of all concerned, including themselves." More disquieting was the fact that the descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons of fairly well educated parents are not doing so well . . . not half so well, as the sons...
...business man was President J. L. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co. of Chicago. He, who has advertised cheese to his profit, wrote to his stockholders glorying in the success of a new sandwich dressing ("Kay"), a malted milk and a "candy malted milk tablet," put up in rolls and styled "K.M.'s," "which in my opinion is going to be one of the best candy sellers in the country." Of cheeses he said: "The new Ancre cheese, a combination of cream cheese and Roquefort, also is a long-keeping article, whereas heretofore...
Celebrities who Mr. Schuyler says write their own stories are Robert T. Jones, Mary K. Browne, Helen Wills. Miss Wills also illustrates her stories, though artists have remarked that her drawings might sometimes profit by ghostly...
Chicago has 15 cab companies, 5,000 cabs. Competition is sharp, service perhaps the best in the country (Chicago is the mother city of Yellow Cabs). But Chicago cabbies fare thinly, they are so many. Samuel Insull might, on his record, be expected to thin out the cabby ranks, profit fatly by organizing adroitly, eliminate some of the risk that exists when too many cabbies are speeding and dodging to glean a living...