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...Kappa will demonstrate their versatility tomorrow when they take their positions upon the Freshman diamond on Soldiers Field to open the annual baseball classic against their Yale brethren. Tomorrow the Harvard scholars will be seeking their first victory in three years. In 1930 the Elis won by the comfortable margin of 50 to 2, and last spring the score...
...small reductions in the cost of handling the average transaction, but the smaller sales volume resulted in percentages of operating expenses to sales which were considerably higher than those for any other year covered by the Harvard studies. These higher rates of expense were accompanied by rates of gross margin slightly smaller than those achieved in 1930; so that earnings were substantially reduced...
...Department stores with sales of $2,000,000 or more on the average last year incurred expenses including interest on capital owned amounting to 36 per cent of sales. Gross margin, on the other hand, was only 33.2 per cent of sales, so that these department stores last year commonly earned 2 per cent on net worth. Specialty stores with sales. of $2,000,000 or more reported a smaller net loss on their merchandising operations, 1.7 per cent of sales, but a smaller final net gain on net worth, 1.6 per cent. The smaller department stores and specialty stores...
...report, the Harvard Bureau gives for the first time typical figures for margin, expenses, and profit per average gross sales transaction. These figures show clearly that stores last year reduced the cost of handling the average transaction. This resulted in part from an increase in the average number of transactions handled per employee. The slightly lower percentages of gross margin on the smaller average sale, however, did not yield sufficient margin to cover even the reduced expenses...
...Figures indicate that although the more profitable firms in some cases achieved higher than average rates of gross margin, their larger profits of smaller losses resulted chiefly from lower expenses...