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...groove set for it, there would be no problem. But economic adjustments are bewildering and baffling. Conditions change every day and government regulations and laws play a vital part nowadays in bringing about those very changes in circumstances that sometimes make all the difference in the world between profit and loss...
...smiling in surprise: "Oh, you are a rich woman. I didn't know that. You will be a very, very rich woman." Each year thereafter she and her husband gave Insull at least $50,000 to invest for them. Each year he would tell them how much paper profit he had made them. One year he said their profit was $500,000 - 100% on their investment. Rosa Raisa wanted to cash in then & there but Insull would not hear of it. The stock was not delivered to them until after the crash and then with the stipulation that...
...Federal court in Manhattan, Socialite Gertrude Emily Gaynor Webb, daughter of New York's late Mayor Gaynor, revealed that without risking her own money, she had made a profit of $72,000 between 1919 and 1926 on a marginal stock account opened in her name by her husband's good friend, the late Harry Payne Whitney. Mr. Webb explained that "we were at Palm Beach in Bradley's place playing roulette with 50? chips when Mr. Whitney walked in. Addressing my wife and the girls, he said: 'That is a foolish way to try to make...
...punctured. It had-but not the way Wall Street suspected. The New York State Attorney General curtly announced that he had been investigating Tack's amazing rise from a low of $1.50 a share early in the year to last week's high. Swift & Co. announced a profit for its fiscal year (ending Oct. 28) of $5,882,000, almost precisely $1 a share, practically the same amount the company lost last year. ¶The public relations of the New York Stock Exchange are said to be governed by two simple rules: 1) to tell the public...
...stock boy, agent, district salesmanager, plant superintendent, vice president. ¶Hahn Department Stores, Inc., which lately parted with its founder, Lew Hahn (TIME, Aug. 21), last week parted with Paul Quattlander, its president since 1931. He pointed out in his third letter of resignation that the profit & loss account of Hahn Stores would be $2,850,000 better off this year than last, that "real earnings" are in prospect. He resigned, he said, to "go in for exercise in a big way" on a ranch in the Southwest...