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...Restaurants must sell liquor at cost. Instead of a profit on their liquor sales, the control board will pay them sums proportionate to their sales of commodities other than liquor...
Rare is the corporation president who, taking office in 1931, can point to his first year as record high in the company's profit history. But such is the accomplishment of large, suave, meticulous Samuel Clay Williams, who became president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in June 1931. Last week Mr. Williams reported net 1931 earnings of $36.396,816. The previous high (1930) was $34.256,665. In contrast to his predecessor, Bowman Gray (now chairman) who is a great tobacco sales man, and to William N. Reynolds, executive committee chairman, who is a great tobacco buyer, Mr. Williams...
...result was to win $9,700 and lose $3,500, a ... profit of $6,200, I ought not to be telling this, but the howl of anguish which rolled in made the story too good to keep...
...strange guests, some of whom actually laughed before they went away to brood. "We estimate that 70% of the people who consult us ultimately decide against suicide." said the Advisory Centre's quiet, kindly secretary. "It seems to be in mutual comparison of their troubles that our clients profit most. So many think their own fate unbearable, only to learn that it is better than that of others they meet here...
...have left for the South Seas in his private yacht, to hunt for flying fish. In one form or another, catching fish has always been Mr. Thompson's hobby. The once-mighty Capone is contemplating the stripes in his new suit, while his henchmen maintain bread-lines from the profit of their labors. The city has six hundred fifty thousand unemployed, and a financial Gordian knot which has yet to find its Alexander. Whatever its future may bring, history will record that in the decade which has just closed Chicago was preeminent for public vulgarity, organized corruption and imbecility...