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Fact remained that even if the public had packed all the seats of the Music Hall twice daily, the margin of profit, after taking out Roxy's $100,000 weekly overhead, would have been extremely small. Showmen recalled the old Hippodrome, last seat of spectacles. There one used to be able to witness such theatrical colossi as herds of performing elephants, tanks full of mermaidens, the siege of Port Arthur, the capture of Veracruz. Public apathy landed the spectacular old Hippodrome on the rocks in 1929. As holder of one of the largest individual stakes...
Scrip. Three months ago at Hawarden, Iowa, 300 red-white-&-green certificates were put in circulation by the city. The Hawarden scrip was issued along lines similar to that of Evanston, but it had 36 places on the back to stick 3? stamps, thus assuring the city an 8? profit per dollar on redemption...
...State-controlled super-trusts (such as his Italia Line, formed by merging the nation's three largest transatlantic carriers), assumed that he hopes to draw Italian capital into these huge, permanent units by preventing its dispersal into tempting ''exuberant industries" which seem to offer a quick profit...
...uneconomic in the extreme. Early last year the combatants began to pull their punches. Rothermere abandoned his expensive Newcastle paper on condition that Camrose withdraw from Bristol. Rumors of a more extensive truce gained in volume until last week when Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd., having never shown a profit, announced voluntary dissolution...
...something else than college work. As a result, the number of Freshmen readmitted for the year 1932-33 has been reduce more satisfactory results we should give up readmission of Freshmen except in very special cases, because many of these men are a drag on the College and profit little from college work...