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...greatly hoping that repeated promises that private investment and private initiative to relieve the Government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled. We have not imposed undue restrictions upon business. We have not opposed the incentive of reasonable and legitimate private profit. . . . We have sought to put forward the rule of fair play in finance and industry." Opponents: ". . . There are a few among us who would still go back. These few offer no substitute for the gains already made, nor any hope for making future gains for human happiness. They loudly assert...
When War becomes a nation's No. 1 business, any Government would like to abolish the profit system and take over the whole country. Next to Soviet Russia, Fascist nations are best equipped to do so. Last week Dictator Benito Mussolini broadly hinted that when "the eventual war" comes, Italy will do what Fascist theorists have long predicted. He posed the old issue: "Must the eventual war be financed by either loans or taxes?" and dodged a specific answer by declaring: "It is resolved, but I do not wish...
...only way to tell how much money Henry Ford makes or loses is to find the difference between each year's profit & loss surplus on the balance sheet which Ford Motor Co. is required to file annually in certain states where it does business. On that basis of rough calculation, financial writers were able to deduce last week from a statement of condition for 1933 filed with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations, that Ford Motor Co. had finished the year with a $3,923,000 deficit against a deficit of $79,247,000 in 1932. Last year...
...down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook...
...still, perhaps, in a state of arrested development, Certainly America, still by Mr. Brook's standards, has not yet come of age. For that reason his essay still apply to the country as much as they ever did and they can be read with the same pleasure and profit as did the first readers...