Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downs as a movie serial. He got his start with the K. & S. Co., founded with a Chicago partner in 1915, to sell cameras, jewelry and novelties by mail. Sometimes K. & S. mailed out unsolicited merchandise, gambled that enough people would send in their money to turn a profit. Often Koolish mailed out punchboards, furnished the merchandise prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish was so successful that he made a fortune...
...preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...
Test of Success. As the boys grew, they were sent to work after school as a matter of course, and Ma herself often helped piece out the family finances. Once she bought a whole carload of apples and made $100 profit selling, them to the neighbors. "Your Ma," muttered Pa almost fearfully, "is acting like a crazy woman." Pa, a man of set ideas and enormous faith in his own mind, sometimes thought his children were going off their trolleys, too. But in the end, even Pa had to admit that the Loves-not, of course, excluding himself-had done...
...Adams House kitchen will provide the Snack-food and drinks. The entire project will be student operated on a non-profit basis...
...another for $1,650,000 with the help of Washington Lawyer Joseph Rosenbaum. Later, Senator Capehart charged that Central Iron & Steel had sold scarce steel to a pocket corporation which had in turn resold it in Chicago's grey market for $75,000 profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made $75,000 for doing nothing." Control of the corporation was held in option by Lawyer Rosenbaum, who denied the charges, and by ex-RFC Employee E. Merl Young. His wife, a White House secretary, was given a mink coat for which Rosenbaum paid...