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...Gross margin for mason material dealers in 1928 was 23.2 per cent of sales; total expense, 22.7 per cent; leaving a net profit over and above return on investment of 0.5 per cent, or $.50 for each $100. of sales. Profits of 3 per cent or over were secured by more than one-fifth of the firms...
Companies handling lumber reported a gross margin of 25.8 per cent; total expense of 25.0 per cent; and net profit on sales of 0.8 per cent. Stock-turn was at the rate of 3.1. times a year. Profits of 3.0 per cent or over were shown by one-fourth of them...
...firms selling lumber and mason materials, gross margin was 24.4 per cent: total expense, 22.8 per cent; and net profit, 1.6 per cent. Profits of 3.0 per cent were realized by about one-third of the dealers in this class...
...from members of the Junior class have been coming in very satisfactorily during the past week. Although no definite figures are available, it is understood that each House has had about 125 first choices so far. Since approximately 75 places are reserved for Juniors in each House, a comfortable margin is allowed for making up the cross sections desired...
...dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific charge against...