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...merely to state, as do Republican leaders, that the Depression is worldwide. That was not their explanation of the apparent prosperity of 1928. If they claim paternity for one, they cannot deny paternity for the other. . . . For ten years we expanded far beyond our natural and normal growth. . . . Corporate profit was enormous. . . . The consumer was forgotten . . . the worker was forgotten . . . the stockholder was forgotten. Enormous corporate surpluses . . . went into new and unnecessary plants, which now stand stark and idle, and into the call money market of Wall Street...
...indirect ob-individual, ligations of the U.S.) This is fund would be lent to States , counties , cities or public corporations to finance such self-liquidating projects as toll bridges, tunnels , via ducts, waterworks , docks and canals . Only two forms of private industry could borrow from this fund: limited- profit housing corporations fors lumeradication: construction concerns engaged to execute public works programs. Set aside also was $40,000,000 for the R.F.C. to help the Farm Board finance the export of its surplus. A $300,000,000 R. $100,000,000 worth F.C. fund to be lent only to States...
...school spends $200 in preparing for an outdoor pageant. In case of rain, the $200 will all be lost: but, if the weather is fair, the pageant will give a profit of $400. To protect itself against loss, the school takes out insurance against rain. The insurance policy is for a definite sum paid for by the school at a definite percentage of the amount of the policy. After paying the cost of the insurance, it is calculated that in case of rain the school will clear 3/10 of the amount for which it is insured, and that in case...
...owners of the Artiglio II (the Sorima Co. of Genoa) will divide whatever comes up from the Egypt. Speaking for Lloyd's, Sir Percy assured the Italians that the French libeling of the Artiglio IPs gold cargo was but a legal incident which would not interrupt further work or profit. To Commander Quaglia, the Italian Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano dashed a wireless message: "Warmest congratulations from Premier Mussolini to yourself and all the crew...
...information that they were in a fierce financial pickle. Since talkies were established in 1928. the cinema business has been going rapidly downhill. Last year was its worst. Of first-line companies, only Loew's, Inc. (of which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the producing subsidiary) made an appreciable profit ($7.43 per share). The others made a panicky attempt to economize by cutting salaries and production costs; to increase efficiency by bizarre shifts in personnel; to increase profits by copying any picture that showed signs of making money...