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...stable of hunters. For either brother, it would be hardly more than pin money. But the $8,073.61 profit which showed on a balance sheet upon Brother Townsend's desk last week was as exciting to him as a great fortune. It was the first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first profit ever shown by a major air service operated without mail contract or subsidy, a profit made in the face of a virtual axiom that no line could make money...
Said an official announcement: "This action has been prompted largely by improved earnings since the first quarter of the year. Net earnings for the third quarter, which is normally one of the poorest quarters of the year, are estimated at slightly in excess of the proposed dividend." In the third quarter of last year NCR earned 42? on the A stock. During the first quarter of this year NCR lost $373,000 but the next three months turned the deficit into a $491,000 profit, or 41? a share...
...Last year Gannett Co. earned net $964,746. For the first half of 1931 net earnings were $498,455 as compared with $578,688 for the same period last year. But the 1931 half-year earnings were eleven times the dividend requirement of the preferred stock then outstanding. With the sale of $1,000,000 additional preferred stock to the public, it is estimated that earnings for all of 1931 will be about five times the dividend requirement...
...been brought and dismissed the week before. The second one was dismissed last week when Dean Madden proved that it misrepresented the financial state of the Institute, showing only that one division of the Institute had declined during six months in 1931. The whole Institute has made $350,088 net since November...
...picture is indeed provided in the reading, but the furnishing of too much detail in lectures, admirably scholarly and illustrative of the scientific method and well fitted for advanced courses as they may be, means opportunity lost to define more clearly the larger aspects of the picture, with the net result that the student is antagonized and confused...