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...Earnings and profits are comparatively low. The average gross amount earned by the individual students who reported was only $211, and the net amount cleared was $94. The average amount earned per hour was only 51 cents and the average individual profit per hour over expenses 21 cents. Those facts seriously challenge the claims made by certain of these companies that canvassing of this nature yields a higher return than other kinds of summer employment...
...most casual inspection of the annual operating statements of the Postal Department would reveal the illuminating fact that first-class (letters) is the only service to show a profit-that it nets the Government from 50 to 90 millions of profit annually...
TIME erred, gladly stands corrected. The Post Office Department's figures for fiscal 1931 showed: ist Class $46.905,962.72 profit 2nd Class 96,674.617.93 loss 3rd & 4th Classes both showed deficits. -ED. Shoelace Institute...
Senator Couzens: How did the operation come out? Mr. Bragg: I lost $400,000. Others may have lost more. Senator Couzens: What representations were held out to get people to join? Mr. Bragg: Possible profit. Counsel Gray: Wasn't that pool formed because of the ability of this group to manipulate the market? Mr. Bragg: I don't think there was any manipulation. Counsel Gray: Oh, be a little frank with this committee. You didn't just take $32,000,000 into the market and then sit down and wait. Tell us some truth. Senator Glass...
...America, Central Europe, Russia. The ore can now be bought for $1 a ton and "lamisilite" produced at 50? per Ib. Victor Chemical wants to control as much of the ore deposits as possible before the ton price gets out of its control. Peoples Gas Light & Coke expects to profit from the sale...