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...begin with $1,000 worth of breeding stock, add $300 to $500 worth during the first three years. Each female mink should produce two to ten kits a year. By the fourth year it is claimed that a successful breeder on this scale should begin making a yearly profit...
...Chicago in ten hours, by plane, train, and truck relays. Our prices are only a few cents over the Chicago market price. May we offer, etc....". By the next morning they had driven to Chicago, and sold all their fish, paid for the truck, and made a handsome profit besides...
What the leaders really mean, and should say, for it is indictment enough, is that the economy of depression shows forth the hollowness of the ideal known as free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires...
Among the duplicate books which the College is offering for sale in the basement of Widener is "School and College Finance," a well-known treatise. The successful management of the University Dining Halls last year ($40,000 profit) shows, we infer, that book-learning is not really necessary hereabouts...
...Hindu dances can be made into exciting theatre (TIME, Jan. 9). In ten weeks he grossed $160,000-enough to pay traveling expenses for himself and a troupe of 13 from Calcutta and back, enough to pay for a theatre, for extensive advertising and to have left over a profit for himself and his manager...