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Calling in Tokyo correspondents, Mr. Takahashi revealed that his Finance Ministry was rushing into shape a bill to make ''Roosevelt money" out of the yen-i.e. to devalue it and presumably pounce on the profit to be had by seizing gold held by Japanese citizens and banks...
Vice Chairman Rentschler, brother of National City Bank's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler, had bought $253 worth of Pratt & Whitney stock, ran up a paper profit of $35,000,000, liquidated most of his holdings for $9,514,000. While "Chuck" Deeds's salary and bonus as secretary-treasurer and vice president had been comparatively modest, Vice Chairman Rentschler collected $1,585,544 in six years-the years during which the U. S. Government paid to United Aircraft's subsidiaries a total of $87,564,988 (half of which it got back from the public...
...contracts were on a cost-plus basis. The present ten-year non-cancellable contract signed in 1931 calls for at least 1,800 tires per day and a profit of 6% or 6½%, depending on the price of crude rubber...
...been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...
...Hollywood, exchanging all the comforts of civilized drama for the barbarous and uncertain hazards of the Sierra cinema. Concerning these new pictures a theory has been noised about, which makes their aim not so much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam Hopkins' also. For, although most who know her name would not recall it, Miss Hopkins has been in nine...