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Whether or not they can operate at a profit, U. S. firms which have $714,000,000 invested in Chile must continue to operate their Chilean plants during 1933 or face confiscatory measures. Such was the situation at Santiago last week when Congress formally proclaimed that "The Lion of Tarapaca" is again president of Chile...
...Riviera not long ago. Quite foolishly, they brought their art treasures to the United States for sale. They got less than they would have in Paris. Many of their pictures have been picked up in the United States and shipped to the Paris market at a fine profit...
...years French art has been coming this way. Now it is going back. It was the same after the Franco-Prussian War and the French Revolution except that then wealthy Englishmen bought it up. We have since taken it back at a profit both ways. I consider French art excellent propaganda. We send it .out, making money in the process, and then it always comes back...
Inquiries made yesterday at University Hall brought out the fact that the profit of $70,000 which was made in the University Dining Halls last year resulted largely from the fall in the price or provisions which occurred during the year...
...officials pointed out that most of the kitchens and dining halls in the Houses and the Union had been completely reconditioned at the opening of the year, thus reducing the expenditures for maintenance and repair during the rest of the season. In spite of these facts the $70,000 profit represented only seven per cent of the total receipts of $966,000. $40,000 of the profit is being used to pay students holding the new jobs in the Houses...