Word: profits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altogether there was $168.68 involved. The candidate who was defeated in 1912 was receiving about $50 a day for being present. The candidates defeated in 1916 and 1924 were doubtless receiving much greater compensation. So it would seem that there was little profit in the proceeding. But as usual behind the scenes there was a principle and several millions of principal. So the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan was recompensed for the expense of hiring the defeated candidate of 1924, and Zimmermann & Forshay were recompensed for the expense of the defeated candidate of 1916-the expense of having them appear...
...Ladies' Home Journal, which charges $9,000 for a black and white page. Yet if one goes through a copy of the Post, reckoning up the gross advertising, it comes to a most soul-satisfying sum. Of course, all this money does not go into the profits of The Curtis Publishing Co. or of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. The cost of printing two and a third million copies of an advertisement is an item, and the cost of the paper for the same number of repetitions is another item; and besides it costs considerably more to produce a single...
...overcome and opportunities to be ex-recited. The tutorial system is in that interesting period of its growth in which it may be said to have conquered initial opposition without yet crystallizing into any final shape. Conscious of security, it may face criticism without suspecting enemies in ambush and profit from the lessons which its own brief but rich life may teach...
...Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
...leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...