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...Cole presented at the meeting a report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, showing receipts of $947,000 and a net profit of $57,000 of which $56,000 was given over in dividends on October 13. "We feel pleased," he said, "that we could fulfill our pledge of 9 per cent on cash purchases and 7 on charged, although last year we were able to pay 10 and 8 respectively...
...merchant bought the lamp from a wholesale house (which would presumably take a profit of at least 3% for itself) for $1. he must mark it up to $1.07. The price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose...
...Squibb & Sons stamped $1 on a bottle of mouthwash, no one could sell it below 79?. Most big department stores sell branded drugs and cosmetics, many of them as "loss-leaders." Because of the heavy, steady demand, they are willing to sell them at little or no profit or even a loss simply to bring people into their stores. Under their own code the department stores could not sell them for less than cost plus 10%, but that in most cases would establish prices below those permitted by the 21% clause of the Drug Code...
...chief difficulties in the way of this scheme are those of fire hazard and insurance; the use of untaxed property for profitable ends; and the construction of a second driveway into the space. The first objection could be met by employing student night-watchmen. The second would be nullified by the strictly educational and athletic use to which this small profit could be put. And the third would be solved by an inexpensive wooden ramp and the removal of one iron post...
...over gold to the President; 2) the President is prevented by the 5th ("due process of law'') Amendment to the Constitution from depriving him of his property. The "property" in this case is not only the gold bars in the Chase vault but his $65,000 paper profit incident to the rise in gold from...