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...years. At the date fixed in the advertisements for the receiving of the bids, not one was presented that had merit in the opinion of the then Commission. Thereafter, Mr. Noland, knowing of the desire of the Commission to secure for the State a profit from the sale of the waters, through an experienced handling of the same, secured the co-operation of his friend and former associate in the Poland Spring Water Co., Mr. Leslie R. Rounds, to study the situation and propose a bid for the leasing of the sale of the waters. A bid was finally worked...
...light, rails become dull with rust. In the past four months bigger trains and more of them have polished up the rails of all U. S. carriers. Weekly car-loadings have run as high as 29% above last year and many an operating deficit has changed to a profit. In the last reported week New York Central loaded 109,000 freight cars against 75,000 twelve months ago. Its June operating income was more than 2,000% above the year before-$4, 384,000 against $192,000. Average June operating income for the first 75 roads to report...
...reports were correct, cash looked better than a railroad too to Leonor Fresnel Loree who last year bought for his rich little Delaware & Hudson 500,000 shares of New York Central at an average of $20 a share. Before the July Crash this investment showed a $19,000,000 profit. Wall Street heard last week that canny old Leonor Loree took some of his profits before Central slumped from its high of $58.50 a share to last week's price...
...flood of war floated the Ark of U. S. Steel Corp. high up on a figurative Mount Ararat where in three months time Steel breathed $97,000,000 worth of the pure air of profit. Never since has Steel reached any such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep...
...that its rise had been at a very rapid rate. Whereas three months ago it had a loss from operations of $3,795,000, and twelve months ago a loss from the same source of $3,362,000, in the last three months it had an operating profit...