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...that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they produce more than one fourth of Australia's wheat. Western Australians have long looked sideways at the Commonwealth's densely populated states, at the Eastern manufacturers who profit from the Commonwealth's high tariff, at the public works paid for by Australia's huge borrowings since the War. To humor their grudge, the State Legislature last December scheduled a state-wide referendum on two choices: 1) a Commonwealth convention to revise the Constitution; 2) secession from...
...major catch in the publishers' schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing Twin were to be issued. In the cases which Author & Journalist has investigated, 100 copies were usually bound, enough for the author and his or her friends. Average profit to the unscrupulous publisher: $200 per sucker...
...over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...
Montgomery Ward selling last week at 12½ Mr. Avery had a profit of $150,000. If it goes up to 21 he will have $1,000,000 profit...
...back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet Corp. which received only $1,695,000 cash and $5,000,000 credit for the ship in 1929 will probably do as requested, for its chief job is not to make money but to promote U. S. shipping. Instead of selling the government-owned ships...